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From: Rex Reges <Dogbert.EggsAndSpamWithoutTheSpam@reges.org>
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"Marc A. Criley" wrote:
> 
> 
> In almost 20 years of software development, I've never been involved
> with a project that would blithely fail to meet the project's
> requirements and be indifferent to such an occurrence.  From projects of
> a few millions to hundreds of millions of dollars, when there were cost
> and requirements problems, we made sure the customer knew about it and
> jointly hammered out a new plan.  Sometimes requirements were dropped or
> modified, sometimes the company ate the difference, and yes, sometimes
> the government expended more funds.
> 

The Government has tried lots of ways to fix its procurement methods:
cost plus award fee, cost plus incentive fee, etc. The best solution
is just to hire reputable folks like yourself, which is amazingly 
hard to do! 

Rex Reges