The language could very well be from some dark humor novel making fun of three letter acronyms. Definitely reminds me parts of Catch-22.
Some of those silly seeming acronyms, like MSC for “milestone C”, probably are included because people who actually work on and around this project have naturally adopted them. I bet there are senior level employees in and outside the government who's whole career has been spent on this one project.
To those people, MSC and ADM are like k8s and MVC
Boaty McBoat Face (BMcBF)
Now I can use BMcBF and you have all the information you need to work out what I'm on about.
I'm pretty sure that "Usage and abusage" encourages that format.
The only slightly controversial aspect of my example is M vs Mc. Mc is already an abbreviation, so should it be repeated intact? For me, Mc is complicated enough as a contraction and abbreviation to warrant deployment in full, as I have done.
sadly, as time goes by, this is becoming less of a norm. people just spit out acronyms because they are so used to, but fail to take a second that someone less familiar might actually be reading it. in previous discussions, this receives some support as "it's targeted a like minded readers" or "they're not professional writers" or "it's just a blog" blah blah.
for tweets, i'm surprised we still you vowels. for longer form posts, it would be nice to still be readable.
I note that, sadly: grammar, punctuation and basic prose construction seem to be wandering off into the mist and getting lost.
* dark humor novel making fun of three letter acronyms