This is bad analysis. The HN crowd should be very familiar with management frequently changing requirements especially when it's far too late in the process fo

This is bad analysis. The HN crowd should be very familiar with management frequently changing requirements especially when it's far too late in the process forcing reworks. Instead of middle managers, shipbuilders have the whole Navy, the personal egos and career ambitions of captains and admiralty, Congress, and the ever changing president and party in power to deal with. The author suggests we don't start building a ship until the requirements are done... my sweet summer child they're never done. There are way too many cooks in the kitchen and that's the problem that needs to be solved, ships are being designed and redesigned by committee nearly endlessly. Most things are. To make acquisitions cheaper this fiddling needs to be curbed, just saying "don't start building" misses the problem and the point.