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Scene It’s 11:30 AM. The brief is tomorrow morning. The overlap window is midday, because that’s when everyone can attend. The cost is not overtime. The cost is prime mission hours. They are sitting in a Teams call, waiting on the next office in the chain. The next office is not late because they are…

Scene I have sat in too many conference rooms where a GS-15 or Senior Executive asks their team: “Why can’t the dashboard just show us this?” and someone mumbles “We’re working on it” and everyone moves on. I have sat in rooms where teams of GS-14s and GS-15s spend three hours preparing briefing materials for…