You are right it is `required methodologies`, but wrong on the source.
The source is corporations which sell curriculums which are mandated by regulation. These curriculums are designed to be easy to sell to governments, which means they tick all the regulatory boxes, but don't actually teach.
Our public education system is not designed to educate, it is designed to return profit to a few corporations which supply it.
How do I know this? Sister is a professor of education and has to fight against this stuff all the time.
The US Gov really needs to start in-housing critical tools if only to build internal competency. There also probably needs to be more incentives for individuals inside the USG to excel and produce value. There are too many perverse incentives for unscrupulous contractors to milk tax payers (see the national parks situation [0]).
There is a huge resource imbalance with the amount of money spent generating hype/misinformation targeting USGov acquisitions vs how much is spent on the other end doing research and fostering expertise.
Maybe the way contracts are written/awarded could also just be overhauled for a similar effect.
The source is corporations which sell curriculums which are mandated by regulation. These curriculums are designed to be easy to sell to governments, which means they tick all the regulatory boxes, but don't actually teach.
Our public education system is not designed to educate, it is designed to return profit to a few corporations which supply it.
How do I know this? Sister is a professor of education and has to fight against this stuff all the time.