Ownership of Technology
I wondered: new aircraft do push technical boundaries outwards so am I right to assume that even if they get cancelled, the next plane that was designed would almost inevitably benefit from a lot of things developed for or learned on the first one?
An engine, for example, could be the core of many planes. The software which is supposed to be so complex and powerful can presumably be used again too. The radar can be used in a helicopter and so on. In other words the billions spent on research aren't totally wasted.
So what I was wondering is, do the governments involved buy intellectual property rights to the technology that they are getting? Does it all belong to Lockheed (or whoever developed that subsystem) totally at the end?
Last edited by t43562; 10th Jun 2013 at 19:49.