I can guarantee you that it was not. Check out DO-278A, and its standards and guidelines that must be followed.
reply...Or what? The US government is in move-fast-and-break-things mode, and is running on a skeleton crew besides.
replyDeploying first to DC? Yeah, that’ll end well.
replyHonestly. Of all the places to deploy first I’m happy it’s that one.
replyThe government politicians who approved this are frequent flyers out of there, so they’re at least getting their lives out on the line before the rest of the country if it proves ill managed or conceived.
It’s basically dogfooding.