Although I'm sure nobody here would have suspected it, I made my living for many years writing hardware specifications and test requirements documents.

I do recall one classic venture into "pure fiction" many years ago when the "Macnamara Administration" issued the order that every military base must show "cost savings" of ten percent of their budget. My essay on "how we might have done it" compared to "how we did it" got Yuma Proving Ground's Environmental Testing Detachment credit for a 1.2 million dollar "savings" on one test that actually cost about $16,000 - done the same way they'd been doing it for the past 20 years.

John