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Good thing the US is doing everything they can to retain their brightest minds /s

The US wants cutting edge autonomous boats from numerous vendors that are all supposed to play nice in squadrons. No doubt in my mind the, I'm guessing like a dozen, companies out there all making boats intended to be operated autonomously by the US military are being developed with skeleton sized software teams where team members work multiple projects and there's no time and resources given to them to develop with good practices for long term development and version/configuration management. Without a doubt this whole program umbrella of autonomous naval vessels is a clusterfuck of numerous contractors doing the bare minimum required in their contracts for working together. I bet the teams have bad turnover so the idea of building out and continuously enforcing best practices is a non starter anyways.

I bet the ones overseeing these, politicians/pentagon pencil pushers/captains/admirals can't even identify whether these companies are doing software development long term sustainably and efficiently. They hire companies rather than people so they wouldn't even know if they lost their most important developer and the program was obviously doomed to anyone else left on the software teams. Just hacking away for contract renewals until it finally becomes so much of a mess that it finally gets cancelled as too costly and increasingly obsolete because of how slow development had/will become

I'm sure if Trump asks Zelenskyy really nicely and says please the US can buy some designs from Ukraine.

I mean, that's just business as usual for engineering.

That's because prioritizing ideology above all else including skills and experience when hiring people doesn't work out that well. China does the same shit but worse but they've been doing it longer and better. Even Oppenheimer recognized that the only way to get the most highly skilled people possible was to actually treat them with dignity. Either FUCKING CHANGE, or wait for the corporations to turn their private security into an army and do a coup just to increase profits by 0.01% via lower taxes, or wait for China to bankrupt the US in a massive arms race like the US did to the Soviet Union during the cold war.

I just hope a lot of the bad people who support the current state of things and want it to be worse suffer hardships during all this I guess.

As officials scrambled to fix a software glitch, another drone vessel smashed into the idling boat’s starboard side, vaulted over the deck, and crashed back into the water – an incident captured in videos obtained by Reuters.

Release the footage you cowards.