Spaz,
Thanks for the reply - I appreciate your efforts.
I'm sure the pentagon "taking charge" of the software development will make everything alright!
After all, the pentagon has such a great pedigree of managing major software projects, and some of the best software engineers and project managers in the world, on 6 figure salaries, don't they.......?? Software's just like widgets after all, just crank the handle faster to turn it out quicker!