> Theoretically there's a process for requesting new software and getting it approved, but actually pushing it through requires getting one of my program archit

> Theoretically there's a process for requesting new software and getting it approved, but actually pushing it through requires getting one of my program architects to care enough to file the request I worked for a much smaller government contractor, but before I left they were moving to a system where you needed approval from the customer in order to get new packages. (For those who don't work in this field, that means you are actually making a request to the contracting representative from the particular government agency for each package you want.) So it wasn't just in-house bureaucracy in the way of progress, and I generally just went without or wrote my own instead of trying to deal with it.