The only truly intractable problem I don't see a way around is the interagency nature of some of the requirements. In many cases, they aren't really requirement

The only truly intractable problem I don't see a way around is the interagency nature of some of the requirements. In many cases, they aren't really requirements in the sense of being formally written down anywhere. It's worse in the IC than in the DoD, but present in both, where enterprise services meant to interoperate with systems run by other components have to go through a trial period after releasing to some sort of near ops environment. Every single involved stakeholder has to sign off on this. Who can solve this? There is no common authority. Theoretically, that is what the DNI was supposed to be for, but they don't have any kind of IT expertise.