The institutional critique links continuing redesign to the placement of naval technical offices inside shipyards. Close access is presented as useful for oversight, while also giving staff more opportunities to alter the design. The concern is that repeated improvements prevent the yard from receiving a stable specification. An adaptation programme is contrasted with a clean-sheet design task, where extensive development is part of the original purpose. The argument favours completing the necessary changes once so that a ship adequate for its defined role can enter service quickly.
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Shipyard oversight and continuing design changes
The unfinished design prompts a critique of incentives that encourage continued alteration after an adaptation programme needs a stable specification.