This is so hilarious that it could only have come from Monty Python's Flying Circus:  DND is inefficient at trimming inefficiencies.

More promotions and bumps in pay grade for everyone involved - just in time to recalculate the early pension entitlement and severance package before bailing out to take a job with a defence supplier.  Bureaucratic thieves.  May the spirit of Dorian Gray descend upon you.