HOWEVER when your acquisition system is designed to ensure that a nuclear detonator and a LAMP application go through the same process, these kinds of “overkill” or “nonsense” requirement responses happen.
We’re long overdue for fixing the FAR and federal acquisition process, which is the root problem. The legal system and processes built over the last 50 years, and as a result the people inside it, doesn’t allow for simple and efficient differentiation between projects legally so you end up with the same hammer meets mail approach.
HOWEVER when your acquisition system is designed to ensure that a nuclear detonator and a LAMP application go through the same process, these kinds of “overkill” or “nonsense” requirement responses happen.
We’re long overdue for fixing the FAR and federal acquisition process, which is the root problem. The legal system and processes built over the last 50 years, and as a result the people inside it, doesn’t allow for simple and efficient differentiation between projects legally so you end up with the same hammer meets mail approach.