Gtscotty
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Actually, that's exactly how it works. There is a DOD contractor who has the full time job of ensuring compliance. In regards to competency your examples are apples and oranges. Not to mention that i trust an independent inspector far more than the claims of a for-profit company given how many ARs we've all seen marketed as mil-spec which were far from it.
Correct, usually the DCMA inspector is civil service and/or retired military. On especially large or important contracts, the DOD usually places a full time DCMA inspector on-site, in the contractor's facility to ensure QC and compliance standards are met. While smaller contractors may only fall under the jurisdiction of a regional DCMA office, I am sure somebody has been placed at the Colt facility to ensure compliance.
You're correct about a DOD inspector being a mandatory requirement for large contracts like this, some contractors can be trusted to maintain their integrity and keep the warfighter in mind when going about their operations, but many can not. It's safer just to inspect them all.
And even if it did why would someone place blind trust in the competency of feds? How fast can you say GSA? How fast can you say Secret Service?
Neither of those agencies are involved in DOD contract QC and compliance managment. But to answer your question, why would you place blind trust in the assumption that a company will give you exactly what you need (and paid for) without occasionally checking their processes and making sure they are on track? There has to be (and always is) some sort of Government oversight on defense contracts in order to try and ensure that our warfighters are reliably getting what we are all paying for.