The telling quote from the article: "But the amount of stuff we are finding is horrible. We shouldn't be dealing with this many issues this late in the program.

The telling quote from the article: "But the amount of stuff we are finding is horrible. We shouldn't be dealing with this many issues this late in the program." You don't suppose this "amount of stuff" or "this many issues this late" derive from lack of engineering talent? I mean, the defense/aerospace industry spent 1968-1972 laying major amounts of people off. Then after the Reagan money ran out (circa 1990) the defense/aerospace industry laid everybody off again. I personally talked my way into a programming job in 1990, and I wouldn't work in aerospace ever again. You can't have any kind of career at all, plus it's totally hidebound. You can't do anything different at all without a major freakout from upper management. Having the DoD and FAA manage an entire industry hasn't resulted in imagination or innovation applied to anything.