Living in the past chaps. Even the BBC article is 5 years old. I'm sure that list of bull**** bingo is no longer current.
Unfortunately, the greasy pole gets ever greasier. I do understand the motivation; the MOD has been a pot in which an awful lot has been pissed away by serving officers and SCS that industry has run rings round.
One has to play by industry's rules; or lose. It's as simple as that. The MOD could of course say "No, we'll play by our rules, here's how it's going to work". At which point, the globalized conglomerates simply say "no, thanks" and take their bat & ball to somewhere warmer. Thousands of jobs are lost; the MOD ends up with second-tier kit that it hasn't had a hand in specifying or designing, and it all goes for a ball of chalk.
Of course some of the words & phrases are simply ridiculous, but are frankly in line with "wanque", "wanquerre" or "bolleaux".