Nail hit on head
Longer Ron has the situation summed up in a nutshell, it is the paper trail that is the problem add a bit of CYA and a bit of " that's not how we do it on the C130, hawk, typhoon" and you get the picture.
As with all projects like this it is getting the process set up that takes the time, once all are happy with the way to go about things then the return to service rate will accelerate.