Or rather, the 95K also includes the formal verification testing for the boatload of downstream systems that get the data.
That is usually what makes cost in government projects explode as they are an utterly wild mix-and-match of code and hardware that is from the earliest era of mainframes 60 years ago to stuff that has been made in the last half year. Alone testing for encoding issues can take weeks... because most testing has to be done and verified manually.
That is usually what makes cost in government projects explode as they are an utterly wild mix-and-match of code and hardware that is from the earliest era of mainframes 60 years ago to stuff that has been made in the last half year. Alone testing for encoding issues can take weeks... because most testing has to be done and verified manually.