Military oversight
The problem WAS cost cutting and lack of oversight and failing to learn the lessons of experience, what was needed was a system of oversight based on the civil system but with the contigencys that are needed by the military in a crisis.
The new MIL145 system has by and large addressed that issue, there are one or two teething problems where the military are sticking to old limitations that the civil world ( operating the same equipment ) have updated and employing contractors who have vast ( and valuable ) experience with military equipment trying to apply this experience to technologically totally different equipment rather than employing experts in the new technology, I guess this is due to the inertia of going first to the contractors you used for the previous job.