You can kill the Revolutionary, but you can't kill the Revolution!

Bad News. The Department of the TDC, despite our best efforts, continues to bring havic, pain, and misery to the Department of Defense. I had hoped our efforts last year would have stifled their continued attempts to rob our government coffers of much needed funds. Alas our cries fell upon deaf ears, and I was forced into hiding until the heat died down (and yeah, no thanks to any of you for missing the message I hid the bold letters below).

I stood in the shadows as they awarded the BMDCS contract to Synercomm for what seemed like completely arbitrary reasons. I watched as the program fell into disarray and our taxpayer money went up in smoke. However, it almost appeared the BMDCS would be the last harrah for the Department of the TDC.

Appearances can be deceiving.

As I warned you last year they once again lifted SADIST from the grave. They called it a different name, Ship Enterprise Layered Defense, but SHIELD or SADIST means the same thing to me. I gasped in horror as they expanded the scope and tightened the deadlines. The DTDC all but crushed the poor company of Sabre Solutions in its tyrannical grasp.

However, it took more than scope creep, tenuous requirements, and the trojan stimulator horse to bring down the hearts and minds of Sabre. It is because of their noble work to rise up against the Department of the TDC that I felt compelled to once again stand up and take the reigns of the DTDC Watchdog. The program ended in December, and I held off for the right time to strike.

Now is that time.

Almost a year to the day the DTDC once again plans to compete the BMDCS after gross overruns and a Nunn-McCurdy investigation into SynerComm. This year they tout a "Back to Basics" approach. They claim that over the years the Battlefield Mortar Defense Radar grew in scope to the point of absurdity. They believe in a more effective system that focuses on the core tenents of a proposal. They say they want clear win plans, dynamic discriminators, and they're only going to focus on best value at the lowest cost.

If time taught us anything it is that when it comes to the Department of the TDC you must see them walk the walk before you listen to them talk the talk. With only 13 days to go before the release of the RFP, they better get walking!

Here we go again.

To be continued...in the future

Hello, today I write to tell you that a DTDC representative visited last night and I decided I'm all wrong.
Everyone needs to know the great accomplishments of the DTDC.
Leveraging the best technologies, providing the perfect solution, and matching their customers expectations are only a few of the ways they provide the best value solutions.
Probably because of my ignorance, I questioned their ability to execute.

Maybe someday I'll realize the error of my ways.
Exactly because of that mistake, and no other, I'm going offline for the time being, but thank you so much for playing along!

Department of the TDC, your time is almost up!

Dear readers,

Welcome to the inaugural post of the Department of the TDC Watchdog group. After years of shady dealings, wasted government funds, and underhanded contractor dealings, we are finally taking our stand to protect the America we know and love.

What prompts this blog? Without mentioning the past years of fruitless contracts, appeals to special interest groups, and woefully abysmal contract peformance, we will focus soley on their most recent betrayal of the taxpayers. This project could have only come from the seediest corner of the institution, namely Sector 7. As if the Department could fool us by making a reference to one of the greatest movies ever. We're talking about the aptly named Project SADIST.

The Small Scale Air Defense Interactive Simulation Trainer is a waste of nearly a half a million dollars. Why? Well, DTDC originally had the noble goal of hiring the company MS99 to construct an EDM they can use to perform trade studies. As it turns out after all of MS99's hard work the DTDC accidentally lost the thumb drive that contained their deliverable. They're now talking about extending the original scope, hiring another small company of approximately 25 employees, and doing the entire exercise over again.

Have you ever heard of a greater waste of time? We here at DTDC Watchdog surely have not. At least not until now. It appears that the Department of the TDC is now going to release an RFP for some kind of mortar shooter.

Given DTDC's background we are certain that nothing good will come of this proposal. So stay tuned to this website for continued news, inside scoops, and project details that will reveal the truth behind the Department of the TDC and it's contractors once and for all!