Well it's always someone's fault.
In this case there are only so many combinations of MIL-DTL-22992 out there.
It wasn't even our harness. No idea where it came from. Serno didn't register, wasn't shipped with the device and wasn't approved (I know as I wrote the asset tracking software).
I still reckon they lost the official harness, rigged this one up and FUBARed it but the moment you point a finger, the professional cockroaches scurry away.