CTR quote: “Bringing this back around to Helicopter’s. Why would a major prime enter into contract with impossible to meet requirements? Because that’s the way the game was played 40 years ago. Based on the US Army recently admitting that the FARA requirements are impossible to meet, nothing has changed.”
Great point. An observation from Army contract history: The UTTAS program RFP incorporated detailed requirements that essentially constituted a spec and throughout the competition changed nothing. The Comanche program was beset from early on with programmatic changes. In other words, the tech team and the leadership team that worked UTTAS wasn’t around for the Comanche. And why was there not a fly-off for Comanche?
I’m suggesting that the ills becoming evident in FARA are symptomatic of a larger, but resolvable problem, and the model is in their own files.