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It's insane to me all the different ways the government procures things.
Just get it straight from the manufacturer. Then if anything ever goes wrong there isn't the "who is REALLY to blame on this long chain of people" it's "hey this shit is broken, YOU are responsible for it"
Of course sometimes they do it as a form of opsec, if you distribute parts across many small time sellers it's easier to hide something than one big order from the primary source.
Did you not read the comment you're replying to? They mentioned obsolete hardware. Cisco does not sell obsolete hardware.
I suspect the plausible deniability of responsibility is a feature not a bug to many of the bureaucrats.
And more complexity is always good for corruption, since every additional kind of complexity introduces gray areas where it's unclear who's to blame.
The beurocracy must expand to meet the increasing needs of the growing beurocracy.