Every contractor really is a massive security risk. If it was wartime and there was any threat to the navy, all the work would be done by navy technicians. It really shows the extent to which bureaucracy has taken over the American military.
Not bureaucracy, corruption. In my own experience, the contractors cost more (though the individual workers don't see more money) with the extra money going to the company, which spends some of it lobbying or offering nice jobs to those who award the contracts. You see this at all different scales.
Yes a terrible security risk what happens when some one tailgates a bunch of contractors with a made up pass. Easy way to smuggle bad stuff onto a ship.
>Every contractor really is a massive security risk.
Exhibit A: Snowden. (while he didn't disclose any really secret information, the NSA/etc. treated the information he disclosed as secret and expected others to treat it that way too)
