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“There’s a different wind blowing in Washington,” said Phil Finnegan, a defense industry analyst at the Teal Group. He noted that many programs in which defense companies served as both advisers and architects have run into cost overruns and other problems. “What you saw in the past was a close relationship between government and industry,” he said. “The idea was: Trust the contractor with the ability to come up with the overall architecture and implementation of systems because they have so much capability.” But now there have been problems, he said. “There is a new attitude. There is not the level of trust of contractors you saw a few years ago.”