Pete Buttigieg
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1,193 appearances
7 recordings
6 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 10 May
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I mean, that's the like under 1%, but it's still a huge waste if you have a project cost
1% or 10% or sometimes 100% more than it should, right?
I mean, by definition, every penny it takes to build something more than what it was actually required is wasted.
And I do think there's a lot of that.
I think government gets in its own way with procedure.
That was an example where we needed to invest.
It's that tough situation in needing to swallow hard and go before Congress or the taxpayer and say, look, we need more funding for this.
That's what we did.
By the way, this is one of the rare areas where I agree with my successor, who's done pretty much the same thing, to make sure we got the funding to upgrade the technology.
Now,
This is one of the few audiences that might be nerdy enough that I can geek out a little bit and talk about the big upgrade to the communications backbone that we were doing.
It was to go from TDM to IP, from copper to fiber.
I think a lot of people would be astonished to know that something as important and theoretically modern as our aviation system is working on TDM.
That obviously had to be upgraded.
We launched a contract.
Verizon was the contractor.
Obviously, a multi-year, multi-billion dollar IT contract when you have to have not even five nines, but like a billion to one chance of anything going wrong, 24 by 7 by 365, it's challenging and it takes a while.
But that's one of the reasons why we felt a lot of urgency on that particular issue.
But again, there's two ways of looking at this, right?
Both of which are true.
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