Most projects start out slowly - and then sort of taper off.
One cannot legislate problems out of existence. It has been tried.
The process of competitively selecting contractors to perform work is based on a system of rewards and penalties, all distributed randomly.
The optimum committee has no members.
Rank does not intimidate hardware. Neither does the lack of rank.
It is very expensive to achieve high unreliability. It is not uncommon to increase the cost of an item by a factor of ten for each factor of ten degradation accomplished.