>> Management: "There's too much risk, even if I can't explain why."

This sums up one of my major frustrations of being a programmer for the Air Force Research Lab(AFRL).

You have branch and division managers that are completely incompetent trying to micromanage Software Engineers and Project Managers.'Why' isn't ever a thing they think about because they're afraid to admit as managers what they don't know why, and they aren'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.

I worked there for 5 and a half years, then quit because I couldn't deal with the frustration of upper level incompetence and blatant fraud waste and abuse.