Reading between the lines, I'm guessing the specifications were written loosely enough that these things meet them, despite not actually being usable for the intended purpose. The question then becomes who was in charge of writing specifications, checking bidders' qualifications, and assigning contracts. And whether those people fell down on the job because of ordinary incompetence under a lot of time pressure, or because the Trump administration is fine with steering a lot of government money to fly-by-night operators for something it didn't really want to do in the first place.
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