Aerospace Project Management Woes - Why?
 

The current mod procurement process starts with a URD that never gets tested against reality until sometime after the budget is set. From the user's perspective anything less than this URD is inferior and therefore mostly never delivered for the budget available. The reason the examples mentioned above are successful is that the user has taken a product that already exists then changed how they operated to make the most of it. There is a lesson there somewhere:-/