This is so because with AR, the government is no longer telling the seller how to do business, i.e., automatically taking responsibility for what is produced. If this premise is true, there are many tools developed by the consumer community that can be put to use by DoD acquisition managers, e.g., product testing, flexible purchasing, competition, legal system, etc., to calm the chaotic situation. Incidentally, it is ironic that AR has overlapped with the software technology of retooling to distributed object computing, which requires the same consumer-oriented management approach by the commercial sector. Also, the electronics industry had a precedent when integrated circuits replaced custom circuit design.
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