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Re:The Air Force is having to reverse engineer parts of its ... by Jtsummers on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @03:43PM (#26334180)
US DOD and their industry partners definitely has this capability already. If they're putting this call out there then there's a real need, not a covert effort to promote the discipline of reverse engineering.
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Re:The Air Force is having to reverse engineer parts of its ... by AnthonyMouse on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @03:53PM (#26334350)
Also, to quote Independence Day:

> You don't actually think they spend $20,000 on a hammer, $30,000 on a toilet seat, do you?

The budgets they use for secret reverse engineering aren't booked as any kind of reverse engineering.

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Re:The Air Force is having to reverse engineer parts of its ... by jessaustin on Wednesday March 03, 2021 @05:29PM (#26335689)
One fears we'd be shocked by how much is actually going to General Smith's brother-in-law's toilet-seat dropship company. We'd like to think that Pentagon auditors could find that sort of thing, except that Pentagon people tell us continuously that they are unauditable.

https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/pentagon-audit-bud...

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