Army Expects to Pay $21.9B on Microsoft Combat Goggles over 10 Years (interestingengineering.com)

This... is really expensive. Will there be 3,000-10,000 engineers slaving away on this one problem? Or is it another case of a government pork fest?

(see also: All of Oracle, and half of Google; I'm convinced they're 65-90%+ subsidized by the USG and Edus).