Programmed to Fail - 6. Innovation
Acquisition Talk
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The Lightweight Fighter Case Study
In the lightweight fighter case study, intra-governmental competition was actively suppressed. Armin Alchin wrote that there are not two departments of defense to provide competitive survival and selection of preferred products. In retrospect, the lightweight fighter concept proved a good value for first the Air Force and later the Navy. Yet as a brief impression of the institutional challenges faced by the lightweight fighter program's demonstrates, it was unlikely to have ever happened.
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