Hornet is right, of course, but one has to remember that the military is NOT a profit-motivated enterprise. They go kill people for a living. If the piece of equipment that allows them to do that safely and effectively takes all day to troubleshoot and tweak, then so be it.
Now, a civilian contractor is motivated by profit, but they have to consider the mission requirements of the organization they have a contract with. They have to remember that they can crank out 50 Simpson 260AFP-1s a day, but only one TTU-205. Did they contract by piece-work or labor hours? Is their performance measured by how many pieces of TMDE they crank out a week/month/year, or by how well that TMDE worked when the customer fixed a bomb delivery system?
A PMEL contractor looks at a lab, says "OK, I have 10 people, that's 20,800 hours a year, average rate is $30 an hour, that's $624,000, plus overhead and profit- I'll bid $1MM for the year..." I doubt they're losing money if a tech does a good job on a TTU-205...
I think capitalism works fine when Boeing sells the USAF a couple hundred fighter jets, but not so well for the shop that has to maintain them on a base somewhere... It's a different set of paradigms when your client is the military, and not the local widget vendor...