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mrttao said:
The cheapest military radar is apparently 100k$
the fact employees are given credit cards to buy these is ridiculous.
this should be an invoice sent to the govt who then pays it

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How much does a military radar cost? | [April Updated]

How Much Does a Military Radar Cost? The cost of a military radar system is notoriously variable, spanning a truly enormous range depending on factors like its capabilities, size, intended platform (airborne, shipborne, ground-based), and production volume. A very basic, short-range...
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What the hell would NOAA need military grade radars? Are they going to need a lock to launch missiles at the clouds?
Wouldn't something like, say, weather monitoring radar be what NOAA might have much more plausible use for?

Price of weather monitoring equipment

weather monitoring equipment is used to collect, measure, record and transmit weather and meteorological information. Weather monitoring equipment plays an important role in areas such as weather forecasting, agriculture, water resource management, environmental protection and energy. First, the...
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Marduk said:
What the hell would NOAA need military grade radars? Are they going to need a lock to launch missiles at the clouds?
Wouldn't something like, say, weather monitoring radar be what NOAA might have much more plausible use for?

Price of weather monitoring equipment

weather monitoring equipment is used to collect, measure, record and transmit weather and meteorological information. Weather monitoring equipment plays an important role in areas such as weather forecasting, agriculture, water resource management, environmental protection and energy. First, the...
www.niubol.com
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i mixed up the acronym.
ok so its the weather forcast guys.
can you tell me what that link says? it won't open on my PC for some reason
 
mrttao said:
i mixed up the acronym.
ok so its the weather forcast guys.
can you tell me what that link says? it won't open on my PC for some reason
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A cheap company offer for farmers on radars and related weather monitoring equipment with price ranges:
I. Price of weather monitoring equipment
The price of meteorological monitoring equipment varies according to brand, function, specification, accuracy and other factors. The following is a list of some common weather monitoring equipment and its price range (data from some representative manufacturers):
1. Automated weather station: automated weather station is a multi-functional, high-precision and fully automated weather monitoring equipment. The price ranges from $2,000 to $5,000.
2. Radar Weather Station: Radar Weather Station adopts advanced radar technology for weather monitoring. The price is between $8,000 and $10,000.
3. Radiometer: Radiometers are used to measure solar radiation and reflection. The price ranges from $2,000 to $5,000.
4. Anemometers: Anemometers are used to measure wind speed and direction. Prices range from $500 to $1,000.
5. Hydrographic level meter: Hydrographic level meters are used to measure water level, flow, temperature and other information. The price is between $1,000 and $2,000.
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Here's a heaping of DOGE findings:

Article:
The Inter-American Foundation, an agency whose primary action was to issue foreign grants ($60M budget), has been reduced to its statutory minimum (1 active employee). Examples of grants that were cancelled in the process:

- $903,811 for alpaca farming in Peru
- $364,500 to reduce social discrimination of recyclers in Bolivia
- $813,210 for vegetable gardens in El Salvador
- $323,633 to promote cultural understanding of Venezuelan migrants in Brazil
- $731,105 to improve marketability of mushrooms and peas in Guatemala
- $677,342 to expand fruit and jam sales in Honduras
- $483,345 to improve artisanal salt production in Ecuador
- $39,250 for beekeeping in Brazil



Article:
Yesterday, @NIH cancelled seven grants for transgender experiments on animals including:
- $532K to “use a mouse model to investigate the effects of cross-sex testosterone treatment”
- $33K to test “feminizing hormone therapy in the male rat”



Article:
Weekly Credit Card Update!

Pilot program has been expanded to 16 agencies to audit unused/unneeded credit cards. After 2 weeks, ~146,000 cards have been de-activated.

As a reminder, at the start of the audit, there were ~4.6M active cards/accounts, so still more work to do.



Article:
HUD completed the same audit. Initial findings on paid software licenses:

- 35,855 ServiceNow licenses on three products; only using 84
- 11,020 Acrobat licenses with zero users
- 1,776 Cognos licenses; only using 325
- 800 WestLaw Classic licenses; only using 216
- 10,000 Java licenses; only using 400
 
bullethead said:

Article:
HUD completed the same audit. Initial findings on paid software licenses:

- 35,855 ServiceNow licenses on three products; only using 84
- 11,020 Acrobat licenses with zero users
- 1,776 Cognos licenses; only using 325
- 800 WestLaw Classic licenses; only using 216
- 10,000 Java licenses; only using 400
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. . . If State Department has anywhere near that many unused Acrobat licenses I'm going to throw a fucking fit. I've been fighting to get one for my VPN desktop for YEARS and they constantly fucking refuse. I have work arounds, fortunately, but they're a pain in the ass and make no sense why they cannot just put an active Acrobat Pro license to be assigned to my account. And yes, I do actually need full Acrobat for my work, since I'm a tech writer/editor, documents and documentation are what I do and thus I have to make and edit PDFs all the time.

That and a Visio license... they absolutely refuse to grant me one even though people constantly ask me to make graphics.
 
S'task said:
. . . If State Department has anywhere near that many unused Acrobat licenses I'm going to throw a fucking fit. I've been fighting to get one for my VPN desktop for YEARS and they constantly fucking refuse. I have work arounds, fortunately, but they're a pain in the ass and make no sense why they cannot just put an active Acrobat Pro license to be assigned to my account. And yes, I do actually need full Acrobat for my work, since I'm a tech writer/editor, documents and documentation are what I do and thus I have to make and edit PDFs all the time.

That and a Visio license... they absolutely refuse to grant me one even though people constantly ask me to make graphics.
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...what kind of a business model is that? Why would a company refuse to sell to a customer?
 
Guardian Box said:
...what kind of a business model is that? Why would a company refuse to sell to a customer?
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I think he is saying that he works for the govt, specifically the state department.
and is saying the state department refused to give him a license even though he keeps on asking for one because he actually needs it to do his job.

and now we are finding they have so many unusued licenses and their refusal to give it to him is just bizzare.
 
Rocinante said:
Those still need licenses for software
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I have no idea how this stuff works man.
I just know the army has given over 400k VMs formpeople to use.
When Doge does thier stuff for DoD you gonna see some big numbers

Edit:
Apperently the Army Community Service (ACS) who are a major help to soldiers families ans the like got thier budgets frozen.
They can't even get paper for thier printers
 
mrttao said:
I think he is saying that he works for the govt, specifically the state department.
and is saying the state department refused to give him a license even though he keeps on asking for one because he actually needs it to do his job.

and now we are finding they have so many unusued licenses and their refusal to give it to him is just bizzare.
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Bureaucracy
 
Zachowon said:
I have no idea how this stuff works man.
I just know the army has given over 400k VMs formpeople to use.
When Doge does thier stuff for DoD you gonna see some big numbers

Edit:
Apperently the Army Community Service (ACS) who are a major help to soldiers families ans the like got thier budgets frozen.
They can't even get paper for thier printers
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All the licensing for software is the same for a VM. It's basically just a computer that's hosted on an extra big computer.

The nice thing about them is that they're really easy to back up and restore, and it can save some cost compared to buying everyone expensive hardware. There's also solid arguments that they can be more secure, as the data is stored in secured locations instead of on 400,000 peoples individual PCs.
 
You'd think all the oversight and accountability agencies would've caught this shit, but nope:

Article:
Two contractors spent 9 years and $200M working on a modern provider enrollment system at @CMSGov. After 14 missed deadlines, zero usable output was produced. The contract has now been cancelled.

Smart decision by @CMSGov and we look forward to working with you.


Article:
247 cancellations of wasteful contracts today, with a ceiling value of ~$999M and savings of ~$390M, including a $3.5M Dept. of VA consulting contract for outsourced “enterprise mail management program support services” which the agency determined could be handled internally with the current @DeptVetAffairs team. In addition, @ENERGY @EPA @HHSGov contributed substantially.

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The VA cancelled a $56,000 contract to water ~8 plants for 5 years. This is ~$1400/plant/year. The contract has been canceled and DOGE will water the plants free of charge.
 
mrttao said:
I think he is saying that he works for the govt, specifically the state department.
and is saying the state department refused to give him a license even though he keeps on asking for one because he actually needs it to do his job.

and now we are finding they have so many unusued licenses and their refusal to give it to him is just bizzare.
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Let me be very clear: no, I don't work for the government, I work for a private corporation that has a CONTRACT to perform work for the government*. However, all the computer systems I work with are PROVIDED by the government because the work I do involves government computer networks, thus for things like software licensing they go through government procurement.

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* The specific job I do can only really be done via a contract, as it involves auditing the security and conformity to standards of State department computer systems. Contractors hired to make such systems have obvious conflicts of interests in performing such an audit**, and likewise the customer FOR those systems*** have conflicts of interest in performing said audit as well, thus the need for a third party.

** Those fuckers will do ANYTHING to avoid having to conform to even basic fucking IT security standards if they can because they don't want to take the time and effort to do the most basic of IT standup work. Never trust development teams on security, they only care if their system does what they were hired to have it do, anything beyond that including the most basic of security, is extra work they hate doing. Lazy asses.

*** They are only concerned with two things: is the system doing what it's supposed to do and is it online. Anything beyond that they are willing to give a pass too... at least until there's a massive data breech that exposes American PII, then they love to start pointing fingers and claim everyone but themselves were not doing their job and that nobody told them there were these issues. Which is where, once again, we come in. We give them a report that they have put SIGN that says they recognize the risks we identified and accept them, so no wiggle room if a data breech occurs, the government bureaucrat is on record as accepting the risk that was exploited.
 
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