Oz42,
and spend our tax payers money to help the US unemployed get back on their feet.
Well, if the choice is this to get something to work on time and approximately to budget, I'd take it everytime over the BAES domestic solution. BAES does have a highly skilled workforce; so they would be equally effective applying these skills in the civilian world. It's not UK mil contracts or bust - so let's not pretend that it is.
S41