One correction: the military absolutely does not have any more advanced technology than the private sector. Very much the opposite, they've been totally incompetent at figuring out how to build software, or even buying software from the traditional contractors, which is the motivation for eric schmid'ts defense innovation stuff and Google's project maven. Many of the statements of the current DoD secretary flat out admit this stuff (plus if you've had the misfortunate working for a traditional DoD contractor it's also laughably obvious).