You know the answer to that, considering how much effort you invest in posting Glenn's quotes from past CC's.
I believe it went something like this " noone thought we would get approved." Easy to go with what you know. Again,it begs the question, after several years of multi year federal contracts for ETD's, why don't S&M have any follow through for 2104 and beyond?
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They have conceeded the ETD market to concentrate on EDS and dozens of other areas. Companies bought legacy tech because the choices were at best limited, given the political pull they had. Now there's a choice, an American choice,that's hands down superior on multiple levels. That's why it's a clearance sale down the block, and why their best sales execs are now working for us. That GSN award was earned, not purchased. If it was available for sale, Morpho or Smiths would have been able to write a much larger check than Glenn.