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Surely the only responsible way is on hookers and blow 
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Marc Clifton wrote: How would YOU like your gov't to spend a billion dollars?
On me, preferably. 
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Well the Swiss government has spent more than 100 million CHF for an informatic project which was then cancelled... that comes pretty close (for reference: USA GDP: $15.685 trillion, CH GDP $632.400 billion )
Of 155 million calculated for the whole project with those 100 million only 10% of the project were implemented so far...
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Yeah. That's the one... 
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By refunding it to the people they took it from to begin with.
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Even when it's supposed to happen politicians try to block it.
Oregon has a system called the kicker [^] where any surplus over 2% is supposed to be returned to the tax payers. Every time it comes up the politicians scramble to try to find ways to prevent that from happening.
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The UK has a government department devoted to ensuring money flows in one direction only: HMRC[^] (unless you take the head of department out for a very nice lunch, or your name is Starbucks)
The universe is composed of electrons, neutrons, protons and......morons. (ThePhantomUpvoter)
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Marc Clifton wrote: contracted to the Oracle
Huh, Oracle involved. That seems to be a cheap price, seems Oralce only does Gold plated iron. 
Common sense is admitting there is cause and effect and that you can exert some control over what you understand.
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Dilithium crystals.
The universe is composed of electrons, neutrons, protons and......morons. (ThePhantomUpvoter)
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As a former DoD and DoE contractor, even reading about those sorts of projects gives me the creeping heebie-jeebies. The Air Force is especially fond of Big System sorts of projects. At one time if you had a reasonable command of the latest techno-babble and a good hairstylist you could make millions without actually doing or providing anything useful.
Software Zen: delete this;
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The problem is stated already in the first sentence of the F35 article.
Bloomberg wrote: The Pentagon envisioned the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter as an affordable, state-of-the-art stealth jet serving three military branches and U.S. allies.
Be excellent to each other. And... PARTY ON, DUDES!
Abraham Lincoln
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Ooops... I'll fix it... the helo was called Comanche, not Apache... the Apache helo does work, the Comanche sadly never did :(
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the DoD spends a billion dollars every 16 hours.
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Where do I get in line? 
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Try the Middle East... we deliver.
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington
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This sounds like a trick... 
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I'm surprised that the USAF even tried such a project.
In 1991 I proposed a modest project to build an expert system for the Peacekeeper/Minuteman force that would track repairs resulting from alerts sent out by self-test routines in the silos. The way the system worked originally, a fault would be detected and an alert raised with a response code. The airmen would look up the code in a manual, and the manual would tell them what spares to load in the truck to take to the launch facility (silo). Once at the LF, they would swap out the suggested items and retest. Over 60% of the time, it didn't fix the problem, and since those damned sites were located in the boonies, often requiring a 4 hour drive cross country just to reach them, this meant an inexcusably long period of downtime. My thought was that an AI system could be programmed with the "Manual" as designed, then the actual repair that worked would be entered after the fact. From this feedback, new probabilities could be calculated and the manual updated to change the recommended replacement part list. Over time, the system would become smarter, and fewer manhours would be wasted taking the wrong parts out to a site. It would have greatly improved efficiency and reliability, not to mention availability - a rather important figure, I think, for a strategic defense system.
I estimated a pilot program would cost about $200k to $500k (less than the price of one missile), but the powers-that-be thought it too risky, and AI too new and spooky to try. Last I heard, the poor guys and gals assigned to those gawdawful duty locations were still spending long hours delivering wrong parts in blizzard conditions, then returning to base for other parts, never updating the official "manual." It's nice to know that, despite the failure of the program, somebody in the USAF finally decided to give technology a try.
Will Rogers never met me.
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search Atari Breakout and then switch to image search.
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Google has too much money. 
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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Arggh, nooooo! My ears....bleep bloop, bleep bloop...
The universe is composed of electrons, neutrons, protons and......morons. (ThePhantomUpvoter)
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