WEBF - I may come across as anti-F-35, but it is what it is. It probably should and would have been axed or more thoroughly reconstructed if people had realized in 2008 how deep in the weeds the program was, but it's no use crying over spilt milk (about 250 million tonnes of it at current wholesale rates).
I am deeply pro-anything that comes in on time and on schedule, not that there's a lot of it around, and I also recognize that monocultures introduce vulnerability. (This applies to battleships and the potato in 1840s Ireland.) Oh, and it doesn't take much exposure to global affairs to realize that the "reach" aspect of airpower has never been more important.
MSOCS - On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog. I could go into painful detail of my experience in systems engineering inside and outside aerospace, but it would really make more sense to engage my arguments (and others') factually from the start.