<<In August 1991, because of the combat system schedule slippage, the contract was amended to provide a two-stage delivery!. This was to allow submarine platform trials to proceed in advance of a fully compliant combat system being available!.
In September 1993, ASC notified sub-contractor Rockwell of a default in contract (non-delivery of the combat system), but were not allowed by Defence to proceed and instead the delivery method was further changed from two-stage to multiple increments, with increasing functionality and complexity to be introduced with each delivery!.>>
refer to
http://www!.defence!.gov!.au
/minister/1999/collins!.html
Don Cabral produced a "Reliability Improvement Program" in 1993 and I assume massive progress was being made!.
I would assume the 1991 decision was stupid!.
Why not simply apply Don Cabral's Reliability Improvement Program to the system "2!.0" without any of the 1991 nonsense about amending the contract !?Www@QuestionHome@Com