My only comment is not about these circumstances, but in the force development, force planning, how do you get what you think you need? There's a tension that goes back and forth.
As you are developing requirements and looking at the best ways to answer those, what's the new idea cut-off date in your definition of the requirement? You need to get on with the business of going out, doing procurement, and working the process, but you also don't want to be tied too much to that. When a new idea, deficiency, or something is identified, your process needs to be flexible enough to accommodate what might be new learned things.
We're doing that right now with IEDs and the standards we are looking at around army vehicles. We're learning new things about what the enemy is doing to us, and we have to be flexible enough to adapt. So that may require us to go back to look at SORs, or whatever. We're professionals and we look at these things all the time.
I'm not talking about this in particular because I don't know the circumstances, but philosophically, that sort of stuff goes on all the time.