This frosts me!
A little inside baseball.
DOD didn’t like the technology monopoly held by the bigs like Lockheed.
So, in new satellite technology competition they’d “level the playing field” and share competitive advancements with the little guys, and then award the contract to “the little guy”.
Now another “big” NG, is benefiting from that “shared” advantage.
The result is more expensive systems, poor schedule performance, and less technically capable systems, due to poor execution and integration.
Exactly. This is not good news either for the taxpayers or for those who want innovation, quality and cost effectiveness in defense hardware. It is just another example of how utterly broken the defense acquisition process is.