Re:Lockheed Reassigns Workers to Fix F-35 Software
by davorak on Thursday June 20, 2013 @04:01PM
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There analogy is not good, but I would also assume that lockheed won a competitive bidding process to get the contract as well. They promised to build it at a certain price and in a certain time.
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Re:Lockheed Reassigns Workers to Fix F-35 Software
by kevincennis on Thursday June 20, 2013 @04:58PM
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Yup, Lockheed's X-35 beat out a (horrendously ugly) Boeing airplane to win the contract, but my understanding was that the initial orders were cost-plus. That's pretty typical for large procurements of advanced aircraft. It's hard to know long it will take and how much it will cost to build something that bleeding-edge.