LO,
This statement is quite a good one to center on:
“So we have a throughput problem,” Bogdan said.
Perhaps that was a driver when decisions were made. Perhaps it was cost of countries building their own on "sovereign" territory. Data sharing. Yep. Always a contentious subject.
I think that saying the building of a Lab in the USA was a condition when buying a US-owned jet is incorrect. Was it a logical decision for Partner nations? Perhaps.
Maybe I need to find someone older to tell me how it is.