Oh my.
One takes a couple of weeks off, dropping off the odd thumb-drive at nuclear research facilities here and there, and the thread has just surged on, in runaway mode.
Also hearing a lot of LockMart people and their trained parrots (and I am not referring to anyone here) informing all and sundry that the program is just going abso
inglutely wonderfully well, and that the professional customers are just spouting wind about 2019 IOT&E completion dates, A-model cost per flight hour being almost 60 per cent higher than the F-16 and so forth.
Which is all reassuring, in view of the fact that they haven't started delivering Lot 3, which was supposed to be finished last December, and that the earned value management system (a quite basic bit of accounting, intended to show the customer that the money handed to the contractor paid for what it was supposed to pay for) has been deemed unfixable for now, having been broken since 2009.