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9 years ago @ DoD Buzz - Video: F-35 Completes ... · 1 reply · +2 points

> Bottom line, 220 rounds of ammo is a ruse

no it isn't. WYSIWYG,

unfortunately.

Oh, and Skynet? Talk to anyone working AI. We are not 15 years away from having AI smart enough to fly drones. We are not even 30 years away. We are "scientific breakthroughs" away from that sort of thing.

9 years ago @ DoD Buzz - Gates Tells Pentagon t... · 2 replies · +3 points

Why 150 page RFP? Because if EVERY single item is not covered, the losing bid will contest and they will start all over again. We are forced to this extreme due to the lawyers participation.

9 years ago @ DoD Buzz - Air Force Blames Mista... · 1 reply · +2 points

It is off by $10B now... while it is just a powerpoint slide.

Give it some time. It too can be off by $180B when it is actually in production.

9 years ago @ DoD Buzz - LCS to Boost U.S. Pres... · 3 replies · +5 points

>“The LCS is ideally suited for a role in the South China Sea....it has a fifteen foot draft so it can go places other vessels cannot go"

Taken a look at a chart of the South China Sea recently? Places that a boat with 15' draft can go where a boat with 34' draft can't go is all within a few miles of the coast... all places you are NOT going to want to take a warship. Well within internationally recognized territorial waters.

Think China would object if we drove a LCS up to with 100 yards of the beach?

9 years ago @ MilitaryAdvantage.Mili... - Commissary Reformers E... · 0 replies · +3 points

nonsense.

Soon commissaries will be for no one.

9 years ago @ DoD Buzz - Lockheed Acquires Siko... · 0 replies · +5 points

Well I guess this means we know how expensive our next big helicopter acquisition will be.

9 years ago @ DoD Buzz - Navy Defends Middle Ea... · 9 replies · +2 points

Iran will claim credit for "scaring us out of the Gulf".

9 years ago @ DoD Buzz - Dunford: Pentagon Reco... · 3 replies · +4 points

"Requirements come from Combatant Commanders"

True.

But those requirements do not directly require 2437 F35's. They are not written like that. They are much more generic, and are only the entry into the acquisition process.

I am betting that the "requirements" as provided could easily be met with F-18 with updated avionics packages, as long as the number on hand meet the conflict requirements defined by the QDR.

9 years ago @ DoD Buzz - US Navy's First Littor... · 0 replies · +11 points

You forgot the sarcasm tag

/s

9 years ago @ DoD Buzz - Flournoy: No Quick Fix... · 2 replies · +1 points

To quote CBO "Curiously enough, the study showed there was no correlation between implementation of acquisition reform and the probability of major acquisitions exceeding budget authority".

Better Buying Power 3.0 just rolled out. We will see what happens. I predict: more of the same.

And "cost plus award fee" hardly ever happens today. The problem is that the defense contractor has a team of 30 high priced lawyers on the negotiating team, facing down low paid GS employees in the contract negotiations.

Guess who wins? Firm Fixed Price just doesn't seem to work out that way. Always some conditional clause in there to get more profit.

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