Trouble is, it's not a mass produced comsumer item with a huge lawsuit waiting if it goes wrong.
Like it or not, it's our lot to develope anything new and shiney until it does what we need it to - long gone are the days when the military did the R&D and advanced technology, which then filtered down to civvy street.
It's all civvies doing the inventing these days, as there's only enough of us to man the front line. Mostly that works, but they have to make a profit, whereas military developers of old didn't. So if something crops up during their R&D, and it costs more, they have to pass that on or go under I guess.
The real issue is that we seem to cock up the contracts and penalty clauses so often, and change our minds with the winds - which can't help.