ASPJ did not meet the criterion established for further production. DOD and the Navy established the criterion for ASPJ's reliability growth, and the Defense Acquisition Board approved the criterion. However, after system failures began to occur during the reliability growth testing, the Navy changed the criterion to exclude system failures attributable to software errors. With the software-induced failures excluded, ASPJ was said to have met the reliability growth criterion; and the Defense Acquisition Board, with knowledge of the change, allowed the program to proceed. If these failures had been included, ASPJ would have failed the test by a large margin. By excluding these system failures, the Navy circumvented DOD's testing standards and failed to recognize the adverse impacts of software problems experienced with other electronic warfare systems similar to ASPJ. Moreover, additional reliability growth testing conducted after the Defense Acquisition Board allowed the program to proceed shows that ASPJ's problems are continuing.