{"id":28279,"date":"2012-06-14T15:34:22","date_gmt":"2012-06-14T21:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/14\/im-shocked-shocked-to-find-wasted-spending-poor-planning-and-scope-creep.html"},"modified":"2012-06-14T15:34:22","modified_gmt":"2012-06-14T21:34:22","slug":"im-shocked-shocked-to-find-wasted-spending-poor-planning-and-scope-creep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/14\/im-shocked-shocked-to-find-wasted-spending-poor-planning-and-scope-creep.html","title":{"rendered":"I&#39;m shocked, SHOCKED, to find wasted spending, poor planning, and scope creep&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>I&#39;m shocked, SHOCKED, to find wasted spending, poor planning, and scope creep here!<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Is anyone <i>really<\/i> surprised at this? \u00a0And, of course, once they finally get their infrastructure and programmatic planning together for this &#8230; it will be time to requisition new &quot;state of the art&quot; drones &#8230;<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='https:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fcdn.theatlantic.com%2Fstatic%2Fmt%2Fassets%2Fscience%2FpredatorHDR%2520%25281%2529-330.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/technology\/archive\/2012\/06\/what-the-heck-is-homeland-security-doing-with-180-million-in-drones-mostly-sitting-around\/258474\/'>What the Heck Is Homeland Security Doing With $180 Million in Drones Mostly Sitting Around?<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe way the Border Patrol created its drone-surveillance program practically guaranteed ad-hoc mission creep.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/b5nss1Kyaxs' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#39;m shocked, SHOCKED, to find wasted spending, poor planning, and scope creep here! Is anyone really surprised at this? \u00a0And, of course, once they finally get their infrastructure and programmatic planning together for this &#8230; it will be time to requisition new &quot;state of the art&quot; drones &#8230; Embedded Link What the Heck Is Homeland &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/14\/im-shocked-shocked-to-find-wasted-spending-poor-planning-and-scope-creep.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;I&#39;m shocked, SHOCKED, to find wasted spending, poor planning, and scope creep&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":28374,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/06\/19\/yet-another-massive-government-tech-project-goes-horribly-horribly-wrong.html","url_meta":{"origin":28279,"position":0},"title":"Yet another massive government tech project goes horribly, horribly wrong","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 19-Jun-12 1:38pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Yet another massive government tech project goes horribly, horribly wrongScope creep, insistence on a big bang roll-out, more scope creep, different customers demanding different things which the project insisted on trying to achieve, still more scope creep, a project that encompasses a decade and a half of radically changing technology\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":1321,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/01\/25\/collusion_say_i.html","url_meta":{"origin":28279,"position":1},"title":"Collusion?  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