By the same token, however, the requirement to incorporate unmanned options into the X-30 design a requirement I understand was imposed for the most petty of bureaucratic reasons that will add to the cost and complexity of the vehicle should be eliminated.
But the court upheld a requirement for commercial interior design, holding that the state had a rational basis for protecting the public from inept design, which could create safety hazards.
It adopted such a design back in 1976, only to repeal the requirement retroactively four years later in response to complaints about how hard it was to determine those original values.
Superficial cost comparisons can become even more skewed if that one service requirement is permitted to be revised so as to make it less exacting after the design that meets the more demanding specification has been set for the multi-purpose airplane.