[engi_nerd]

I am not an absolute authority on this. But my decade of experience in the defense industry tells me "probably not".

[MichaelCrawford]

Then I expect the best contribution I could make is to continue writing.

I was an unclassified subcontractor once. The primary contractor selected me for my expertise with "the part".

What he should have done was to ask me to select the vendor. The part I was asked to write code for had quite a serious design flaw.

[engi_nerd]

Please do continue writing. I enjoy your writing very much.

[MichaelCrawford]

Your Wish Is My Command:

   I State This That It May Be Rejected:
   The Lysistrata Manifesto
   http://www.warplife.com/manifestos/lysistrata/

tl;dr: I shall withhold sex until the computer industry fixes its product defects.

[MichaelCrawford]

It was plainly apparent who "the clint" was.

That got on my nerves.

"'The client' is really, really happy with all the prototype boards that we just soaked The American Taxpayer for."

"Great. Please tell 'The Client' that YOU SELECTED THE WRONG "PART!"

Click.

I have the idea that I could offer the consulting service of selecting 'The Parts' to the extent they are unclassified. They often are. But I dont have the first clue as to how to get started. Among my concerns is that some contractors dont want to pay someone to tell them how to avoid cost overruns.