Me thinks someone is paying someone off for the delay.
...Follow the money, and someone with a LOT of money does not want GAMI G100UL to go to market.
... This is nothing but FAA stalling.
...Is the govt waiting for their preferred supplier to come up with one?
This is all getting tiresome, and frankly, as a career Civil Service employee who worked in one of the many Federal Agencies, rather offensive.
Having worked in the Federal government for just shy of 35 years, I have met and interacted with countless other Civil Service workers. With the exception of a few FSDO people that seemed to operate contrary to their Agency's mission and policy, I have to say that to a person, everyone I ever encountered did their job with integrity and dedication to the mission of their Agency. Civil Service workers are not in it for the money - it is much less than equivalent private sector work (although the benefits are excellent) - they are in it because they love the work, whether it is US Forest Service, US Fish and Wildlife Service, NASA, DOE, USGS, NOAA, FAA, even DOD Civil Service, they all are doing it because they feel it is the right thing to do to help our country and its resources. They are constrained by the policies and procedures within their Agency, as well as all of the Code of Federal Regulations. They do their best to navigate through those constraints to do the best work they can.
For any of us in the Federal Agencies, to show favor or disfavor for a particular company over any other would always be improper, and most often illegal.
With absolutely no basis, you are impugning the integrity of Civil Service workers by suggesting that they are taking bribes, stalling to get a more favored company involved, or just not doing their job. How dare you! I find this profoundly insulting. I would ask that Moderators take a firm hand in editing posts, or deleting posts outright, that make such suggestions or accusations.
And yeah, if Moderators feel it appropriate to delete this post, fine. I would just ask that "fair is fair" and if you are going to delete this one you better be squeaky clean about deleting offending posts that suggest without basis some misfeasance on behalf of Federal Agency workers.