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The director of electronic warfare for the Office of the Secretary of Defense said as much

> The government, on the other hand, has a “significant timeline to make those types of corrections” as it muddles through analyses of what happened, decides how to fix it and gets a contract in place for the fix.

> “We need to be able to have that agility,” Tremper said.

What is your background with government contracting? This isn’t too far from reality.

I have a solid background in Our Reality, where it didn’t happen. There’s no sense making something up just to get mad at it

The article literally has the government officials saying this would take months and contracts. That's the whole point of the article.

> The government, on the other hand, has a “significant timeline to make those types of corrections” as it muddles through analyses of what happened, decides how to fix it and gets a contract in place for the fix.

Or did you not even read it, but decided to come comment on what you presumed it said?

Worst case scenario? This is the most average case scenario you could hope for.