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E4 - How the Pentagon Buys Stuff

The Merge

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The Cost Analysis Requires a Cost Analysis, Right?

When you get your requirement, then you kind of are supposed to do this analysis of alternatives. And so it's again, we keep talking about it. Like you're putting the cart before the horse. You have to know things before it's possible to know them. Or what will more likely do is just say, well, you want a new aircraft. It costs me this much toDo an F 22 and this much to do an F 35. Here are their weights. So they can't imagine the future. We have to use the past as the basis to estimate the future. That's why a lot of the programs just look to be like incremental follow on to what we've already

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