&gt;&gt; Management: &quot;There&#x27;s too much risk, even if I can&#x27;t explain why.&quot;<p>This sums up one of my major frustrations of being a programmer for the Air Force Research Lab(AFRL).<p>You have branch and division managers that are completely incompetent trying to micromanage Software Engineers and Project Managers.&#x27;Why&#x27; isn&#x27;t ever a thing they think about because they&#x27;re afraid to admit as managers what they don&#x27;t know why, and they aren&#x27;t interested what would make software and integrations more effective. Within projects there was a great deal of expertise that was squandered by poor management and management structure within the Air Force.<p>I worked there for 5 and a half years, then quit because I couldn&#x27;t deal with the frustration of upper level incompetence and blatant fraud waste and abuse.