The folks in those subs at depth will be terrified when they get back from a deployment and see they might have experienced a hull failure because of willful neglect.i've done mostly aerospace stuff in my career, never naval, but I'll say this as to why you're right. Pencil whipping one test you'd be able to profit all the TM&L you charge the contract for actually doing it. Imagine how much that adds up to for the company over 20 years. I'm glad she got caught.
How can something so critical be given to one person without second party authentication?
Sounds like another Joyce Gilchrist/Bob Macy situation.