Army of Davids Beats Pentagon Procurement 412
chris-chittleborough writes "The Wall Street Journal reports that 'a Marine officer in Iraq, a small network-design company in California, a nonprofit troop-support group, a blogger and other undeterrable folk designed a handheld insurgent-identification device, built it, shipped it and deployed it in [Iraq] in 30 days.' Compare this to the Automated Biometric Identification System, a multi-megabuck Pentagon project now 2 years old. With bureaucracy increasingly strangling innovation, will agile smaller businesses be able to accomplish what once required a sprawling government project?"
There must be a typo. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:There must be a typo. (Score:5, Funny)
There's a difference (Score:5, Funny)
Re:It is not a "major war" (Score:1, Funny)