This (the bits in bold) is new or relevant exactly how?
Monopoly has been the JSF business plan for 18 years at least. And (from the full story) speaking of people who do get their mortgage payments from industry...
“Some Navy factions seem to be pretty impressed with the Advanced Super Hornet,” said [Loren] Thompson, “but it is a physical impossibility to make it as stealthy as the F-35.” Because even a souped-up Super Hornet would build on an airframe design dating back to the 1990s, he said, “it could never match the survivability of a plane that was conceived from day one to have integrated stealth.”
Freedberg's kinda slipping there, since even Dr T concedes that he's getting cash from LockMart.