Assuming what you are saying is true about this particular program, you can't really test anymore if the DT&E and OT&E Milestones are already past. It's almost impossible, and to go back and test again would have been considered a huge failure and a threat to some government "executive's" advancement. So you see what I mean when I say the concepts of spiral development are at odds with the linear Milestones model. They should have went back and tested.
Now, years later, no one will be held responsible and they can just go through the entire process again with new taxpayer money.
Dang. Why does that sound to darn familiar? Oh, that's right. That is the way waste in this government functions in general.
My point was not that they should have gone back and tested; it was that all the testing was wasted because in the end, the color scheme that was chosen wasn’t even part of the original process, and hadn’t ever been proposed as a potential candidate.