Years ago, the three-star (can't recall his name at the moment) who was in charge of the source selection for digital camo uniforms was so haphazard at managing stakeholder expectations and the initiative's broader objectives that the customer requirements diverged, and we ended up with the rainbow we have today. Failure of a change management effort, if you ask me.
Sadly, while bundling the requirements' owners requirements would have been prudent for digital camo combat uniforms (and it wasn't achieved), OSD somehow managed to bundle everyone's requirements for the F-35... and in doing so pretty much hamstrung the aircraft's effectiveness forever. A recent article I read claims that the USMC F-35B's VTOL needs were the sole reason preventing the possibility of a 2nd engine (as seen in the F-4, F-14, F-15, F-18, F-117, F-22, B-1, B-2, ad nauseum) and curtailed its payload capacity.
So, DoD should have split the requirements for the 5th gen. strike fighter, and not for the uniforms. Instead, they did the opposite for both. Such is the mil.