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The old way of having contracters compete with designs and the loser getting $0 isn't possible when costs are this high. You need a guaranteed market or nobody
by slededit 8y ago
The old way of having contracters compete with designs and the loser getting $0 isn't possible when costs are this high. You need a guaranteed market or nobody will participate.
- godzillabrennus 8y agoPay companies to submit a design...
- slededit 8y agoLockheed Martin was payed to do the original design (X35). They've done as you wanted.
- MrMember 8y agoThe F-35 was the result of such a program. Lockheed and Boeing were each give a billion dollars and a set of requirements and told to make the best plane possible. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Strike_Fighter_program https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Strike_Fighter_program
- maxerickson 8y agoIt's not like the costs are some weird artifact of time itself, they come from specifying capabilities 25 years before they exist. But sacred cow programs that are too big to cut are good for all the people that make the decisions.
- slededit 8y agoCapabilities are not inevitable. You have to create R&D programs to bring them to fruition. Is the complaint here that its rolled up under the same line item?
- maxerickson 8y agoCapabilities are not inevitable. Yes exactly. The complaint is that the integrated development-procurement process proceeds as if they are. For instance, https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2018/02/16/report-emals-might-not-be-ready-for-the-fight/ https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2018/02/16/report-e... while they work on building the JFK.