The DoD changing its mind several times did not do the F-35 project any favors

Yup, while I'm sure that part of it is that the big players got used to this modus operandi, part of it it just your client not knowing what they want. I work for a financial institution, I see this everyday. Our IT partners just have to wait for our ill-conceived and ill-defined tickets and changes of priorities, keep track of the tickets and the money keeps flowing by itself. I know the analogy isn't perfect, but still.

Hats off to Anduril for shaking up the space. Wonder if the Swedes will be able to match them.

	▲	tyre an hour ago \| parent [-]
		The client not knowing what it wants, and then having multiple clients who all want different things. Making meaningfully different variants for different branches of the US military seems excessive. Do we really need a VTOL version? I don’t know, maybe. Or maybe it looks cool and we can do without / spend that money elsewhere.

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pixelesque 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Block 4's still an absolute shit-show in terms of management and progress...