If you've ever wondered how the U.S. military goes about developing, buying, and maintaining equipment, maybe this PowerPoint slide will help. Then again, maybe not.
The PowerPoint slide is a three-foot wall chart displaying the military's "Integrated Acquisitions Technology Logistics Life Cycle Management" diagram, which illustrates the "interfaces among three major decision support systems used to develop, produce, and field a weapon system for national defense." And as crazy as it looks, "defense acquisition is a complex process with many more activities than shown here and many concurrent activities that cannot be displayed on a two-dimensional chart."
"When we understand [it], we'll have won the war," war commander Gen. Stanley McCrystal joked about the slide.
Have you ever seen a more complex PowerPoint slide? If so, we'd like to know about it.
