I will stand by my prediction that this will result in a typically Washington compromise: split the order between the two companies so that we wind up with fewer aircraft but pay more for each one.
“I will stand by my prediction that this will result in a typically Washington compromise: split the order between the two companies so that we wind up with fewer aircraft but pay more for each one.”
I agree. (I admit to not knowing what the real criteria were for the decision, but having worked in a source selection group, the printed instructions provided by the govt try too hard to include every possible consideration - and the weighting factors are at times so silly as to make one believe that they came from the Harvard Business School.) Actual engineering and performance parameters contained less weight than some unbelievable mamby-pamby feel-good marshmallow stuff. When I was done, I felt like Obama without a teleprompter.