Ron Sugar wins board member popularity contest

Any company or governmental unit that opts to "rebuild the ... [entire] computer infrastructure from top to bottom" deserves all the pain they have coming.

If you can't transition from the old to new systems gradually, in a phased approach that allows for user acceptance testing along the way, it's probably because it was neglected for so long as to become unusable.

I'm not absolving Northrop Grumman, but there had to be mismanagement at a colossal scale for the state to find themselves in that position. Usually this is caused by starving departments of reasonable upgrade and maintenance budgets along the way, but there could be any number of other causes. You just can't rule anything out when politics is involved, including departments willfully sabotaging each other for political gain.

Regardless, nothing can be done for that situation now except to hope to have bright people deployed to work on a breakfix basis (at time+materials, I'm sure).

We also have a tendency to give the job to the lowest bidder not the most qualified.

The name sure sounds like he works in the adult entertainment industry ..

knut