Whew, missing the point. s/Littoral Combat Ship/any of the 1000s of wasteful or inefficient programs larger than $1.7B annually/ and reread my comment. My poin

Whew, missing the point. s/Littoral Combat Ship/any of the 1000s of wasteful or inefficient programs larger than $1.7B annually/ and reread my comment. My point is that available effort to resolve any problem is roughly finite. Fixing the regulations to solve this problem would involve Congressional time and attention, and that applying that attention to a larger problem could lead to much larger gains. I'm not saying this is good waste, I'm saying that all things being equal it makes sense to rank problems by potential impact and then start near the top.