During our study on procurement, we heard a lot about the problematic relationship between transparency and federal government procurement, in that it's overreliant on the national security exception to skip through a combination of valid checks and balances that are seen as potential bureaucratic steps.
If the system for procurement is broken and requires an exception to get to procurement decisions, why can't the government reform the process in a way that retains transparency in an open process instead of continuing to file national security exception?