E4 - How the Pentagon Buys Stuff
The Merge
The Rewarding and the Ridiculous Story
Eric Liu: I just didn't have this quote that by the year 2054, the DOD could only afford one aircraft for a year and all the services would have to share it. He says when he was on F 35, we did sort of a threat evaluation and quickly realized we need to beef this up based on some new threats. Liu: We actually did a alpha contracting approach where me and a small team went to Lockheed headquarters and within a week we negotiated their proposal.
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