The supplier is solely intent on doing what's best for its shareholders by attempting to make massive profits. End of story.
This is capitalism 2015.
Ummm, well that is capitalism, I was under the understanding thats how it was supposed to work.
Blame the people who stuff up the contracts and decision makers etc. Not the people doing their job.
What are we saying here, large companies should go, "Oh sh!t, there DOD are incompetent, we'll make a loss and wipe their @rse for them".
We know what the nature of the beast is, deal with it.
Nitro - The Pentagon economy resembles socialism much more than it resembles free-market capitalism.
Like no sh!t, its the military.
We as a society have to find incremental improvements as things go forward, supposedly more bang for buck, all whilst under the constraints of changing societal expectations.
The whole F35 thing appears to be nothing more than a swiss cheese incident. Or a perfect Storm.
Like many things we have tried too many things in one go. Technology integration, try and average out its capabilities for every task, and then change the way we approached the project sourcing and procurement system. Combine all that with our usual bureaucratic bungling and this what you get.
The change in procurement and sourcing/project system, was probably going to be a elephant in the room anyway, so doing it on the F35 project appears to be insanity.