Following the Coast Guard’s Deepwater modernization program, I am not surprised that the Department of Homeland Security has stripped the Coast Guard of acquisition authority, so that now the DHS will have to sign off on, and supervise all contracts.

To be fair, this is not entirely the Coast Guard’s fault. Deepwater was managed under the Lead System Integrator (LSI) model, which is best defined as trusting the fox to manage the hen house.

Now, if only we could do the same with the USAF and Navy.