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Originally Posted by Seahawk

Please, Jeff: If you are a "poor dumb engineer" I'm a sock puppet.

What Boeing did on the military side with the F-18, with a complicit government group, was pretty much genius at the time and is still studied at the Defense Acquisition University, where I have been a guest speaker a number of times.

The genius was once they got the original F-18 in the fleet, got the Navy a "little bit pregnant", subsequent versions of the F-18, including a nearly entire new design with the E/F, were contracted under the "engineering change proposal" clause in the contract...no competition, same rate structure, no detailed contract review, etc.

Again, everyone would nap better than Sleeping Beauty if I went into the details, but they are spectacular from a PM perspective.

I would like to hear about that actually. I am very surprised to hear that an ECP was the contract vehicle for the E/F.