I agree that the US defense sector is an excellent example of the kind of credentialism in software that you, and the IEEE, are advocating! And the results are dismaying. As Anduril says in https://www.rebootingthearsenal.com/:
> Despite spending more money than ever on defense, our military technology stays the same. There is more AI in a Tesla than in any U.S. military vehicle; better computer vision in your Snapchat app than in any system the Department of Defense owns; and, until 2019, the United States' nuclear arsenal operated off floppy disks. (...) today, in almost every wargame the United States Department of Defense models against China, China wins.
Of course the DoD's problems go much deeper than just credentialism, but credentialism is definitely one of the causes of the disease, not a palliative measure.
> Despite spending more money than ever on defense, our military technology stays the same. There is more AI in a Tesla than in any U.S. military vehicle; better computer vision in your Snapchat app than in any system the Department of Defense owns; and, until 2019, the United States' nuclear arsenal operated off floppy disks. (...) today, in almost every wargame the United States Department of Defense models against China, China wins.
Of course the DoD's problems go much deeper than just credentialism, but credentialism is definitely one of the causes of the disease, not a palliative measure.