Exactly. And this specifically contributed to its failure because it assured a "boil the ocean" project couldn't be "nipped in the bud" easily. It was intenti

Exactly. And this specifically contributed to its failure because it assured a "boil the ocean" project couldn't be "nipped in the bud" easily. It was intentional to distribute the design and manufacturing among as many Congressional districts and states as possible, but this ALSO is exactly the recipe for failure in any large project (especially an engineering project like JSF) both technically, politically and in terms of systems engineering and project management.