Isn't it amazing
how poorly (or perhaps with genius artifice) contractual KPIs can be set up by the uninformed and then abused to ensure that a supplier can never, under any circumstances, ever fail to be officially delivering.
It's not a scenario limited to Galileo but I would have thought with such a high value project that the targets may have been, perhaps a tad, more ambitious...
Poorly considered targets can create issues or directly and actively drive improper behaviour in many areas of industry and life - this is just another example.
Now if only I can get paid per line of code again...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
