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Lonewolf
I then encountered exactly the same problem on NATO ACCS, where they thought they could reuse 20 year old flat files for 90% of the software, and ended up replacing all of it with nearly a 10 year slippage.
ACCS: arrgh. I was involved in two related NATO programs (via Capability Packages) about 20 years ago that tied into ACCS. arrrrrgh. I may not feel the pain as deeply as you do, but it was painful enough.