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second hand knowledge in California is - the State is large and wealthy enough to have some echoes of the actual Federal govt.. and repeated words from direct software project participants was .. that mid-level bureaucrats from the "controlling" contract originator, would spuriously and without warning change the requirements.. sometimes so much so that it would invalidate large'ish portions of completed work.. and this happened all the way into the final month of a supposedly serious deadline, with failure to perform clauses and all that, at stake.

A first-hand voice from California State software projects said - that the required prime contractor had 10+ person teams and $1m+ budget, and failed to build useful results. The final result from the project(s) more than once, was "oh oops, doesn't fit with -other framework- cannot be deployed". In other words, literally making things that are abandoned on Day 1 of deployment, for large money, with plenty of apparent pressure on "workers" to perform. etc..