Friday, March 15, 2013

A Ten-Minute Objective Lesson in DoD Procurement



Which is also why the Lawn Dart has morphed from a lightweight day fighter into a tricked-out pig, why it took over two decades to field the F-22 and the V-22, why it took the Army almost fifteen years to develop the M-14* and so on.

(H/T)
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* Though, to be fair, part of the time in developing the M-14 was spent in creatively rigging tests to eliminate the FAL.

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