“Outsourcing has proven a failure at least in the airplane-making department.”
“Let’s see..... 1 millimeter = 25.4 inches......or.. wait... is that 1 inch = 25.4 millimeter?”. “What do you think Naching?” “You don’t know either?” “Ah, hell, it’s just a government contract and the state pays us the same regardless... just pick one and let some other fool figure it out down the line if we’re wrong!”
My old high school physics teacher, Mr. Bell, worked on, oddly, a nuclear powered bomber project. ( he had good stories of it ) He used to say ‘Good enough for government work all the time.’