Prime Contractors
topic on 2 shows · 2 statements across 2 episodes
Masters of Scale 
the a16z Podcast
2 statements about Prime Contractors, every show
Sankar: Post-Cold War consolidation reduced defense prime contractors from 51 to 5
“You know, after, after the end of the cold war, we wanted a peace debit dividend. We started spending less in defense. We had this famous dinner, the last supper. We went from 51 prime contractors down to five.”
Hoffman: Most government tech procurement RFPs produce broken, quickly outdated software
“It's one of the reasons why, you know, most governments around the world have really broken RFP solutions for technology because they go, oh, I will specify the 150 requirements. And then when whoever provider Usually pretty incompetent people, you know, kind …”