development on top of the approved system ?
(I was fascinated by the publication of the book "Collins Class Submarine Story: Steel, Spies and Spin" and searched and found this
on the net:
<<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.>>
http://www.defence.gov.au
/minister/1999/collins.html)
I wonder if already before August 1991 there was some sort of undocumented mezzanine development. If so, whatever the merit, or lack of merit, of the August 1991 and September 1993 amendments, they would have been going in on top of an undocumented mezzanine development.
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