Dengue Dude
much of the hold up was caused by different parts of MOD/RAF not getting their 'i' dotted and 't' crossed.
Don't forget double full-stops. An IPT "Management Board" (17 staff, only 2 of them my senior and most non-technical) delayed approval for a high priority job for AFG for 6 weeks because I'd put a double full-stop at the end of a sentence in my technical spec.
That's 17 staff, out of a 39-strong IPT, MoD could do without.
(SFFP - I still delivered ahead of schedule (12 months +), under cost (by over 300%) and to a far better spec, because I'd ignored the "Management Board" and already conducted final trials on what the User actually needed, not what the URD said. Their eventual approval to enter development was as meaningless as their little self centered "Board").