Under a federal government contract for a construction project, the person directing the work is often not the one with authority to pay for it. Take, for example, a government contractor tasked with building a low-observable aircraft hangar for the B-21 Raider stealth bomber; a government engineer asks for a revised door-seal system, an upgraded specialty coating, or a change in the sequence of the hangar’s environmental controls; the direction sounds reasonable, the specifications are demanding, and the schedule is tight. But then appropriations lapse, the contracting ...
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