If you know anything about the next gen fighter competition, the fix was in....you can watch a PBS NOVA program about the competition....
WE NEED more competition, not less! The gov in the last 20 years has allowed too many acquistions in the DOD aerospace market.
Time to make them compete again.
While we are at it, let’s create some new competitors!
“.you can watch a PBS NOVA program about the competition....”
Yeah, the Death Spiral episode. One of the last few Nova episodes which was informative. The producer of that segment was one of my mentors in Hollywood. He told me it took more than 200 phone calls just to meet the Lockheed guys.
I seem to recall that back in the day there were three major aircraft builders, Boeing, Lockheed, and Northrup. These companies were asked to bid on a contract to provide what the Pentagon wanted, as an example a fighter/bomber which had the capabilities described in the offer too bid.
These companies would then design and build what 5hey believed was the best idea and hand it over to the Pentagon for testing and evaluation.
The gov would test them and eventually after the kinks were ironed out one was selected andthe others went home after pouring millions into r&d only to come up empty.