[Robert Drobot]

“This success is part of our team’s continuing contribution to the Navy-wide goal of delivering the right force, with the right readiness, and at the right cost,” said Rear Adm. David Venlet, Program Executive Officer for Tactical Aircraft Programs. Venlet oversees the efforts of PMA 241. “You’ll see much more of this as the Naval Aviation Enterprise continues to streamline development and procurement of the systems we send forward to our fleet warfighters.”

Screw the American worker and his family......oh yea don't want to forget the payment for this outsourcing comes straight out of your almost empty taxpaying pockets. Merry Christmas, suckers!

[Red Badger]

Cmdr. Dino Ferrari

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[mnehring]

The doors that open out-sourcing also open in-sourcing, the latter, growing 5x the rate of the former.

[hc87]

So applying the same logic, Poland should not be buying 48 F-16s from Lockheed, right?

[humint]

“We have fully realized not only the purely military and commercial benefits but also the political advantages of bilateral cooperation and this U.S.-Poland ... program in particular,” said Col. Stan Prusinski, chief of the Office of Defense Cooperation at the embassy. “A project that brings about savings to U.S. taxpayers, creates jobs in both countries, and generates favorable publicity in Poland is a dream come true.”

This is great news... There are plenty of stories about outsourcing that make my skin crawl but this one is great. This is a dream come true!

[SZonian]

Vanishing vendors. Once a subcontractor goes out of business it is near impossible to get them to open their production line again. And even if they do, the cost is astronomical.

That is a constant dilemma for the military and their contractors. When spare parts supplies are budgeted, they are based on the expected life of the part in use and the expected life of the airframe. When they run out, they run out.

In this case, having Poland build some panels worth a few hundred dollars and then having them buy a few dozen F-16's worth hundreds of millions of dollars seems like a very unbalanced trade to me. Although it's in our best interests as hundreds of highly skilled engineers and builders keep their jobs right here in the good 'ole US of A.

I think the Navy did it right. JMO

SZ

[Leisler]

Like, this is it? Nothing new will be made in the future? And if so where will new industries, making new products get the willing, trained, skilled workers? What, are you a....a....sniff...snivel...a victim? Some kind of serf to a specific company? Bought and owned?

[The Spirit Of Allegiance]

Don't overlook the strategic significance of a solvent and loyal ally in Europe as an available military base. Poland well remembers the horrors of both German and Russian Socialist tyrants.

[cope85]

the new U.N military

[Alien Gunfighter]

Who didn't know this? Raytheon, who builds weapon systems for the US military, makes all of their parts in Mexico.