Apologies for stealing your thunder IRaven, but I would like to answer Oz42.
As a supporter and ex member of the Armed Forces, a taxpayer, and a business owner, I have absolutely no problem with BAE being awarded any public contract and even having a slight commercial bias towards them to protect British economic interests.
Providing the contract is written such that what BAE promises, it delivers, on time and on cost. Otherwise it gets get paid f**k all.
If BAE cannot accept work on this basis, it is no asset to the taxpayer. And if in 2011 the MOD cannot write contracts effectively, then they should be shunted out the way in favour of people who can.