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The Skunk Works Mentality Is Hardening
In the year 2054, the entire defense budget will purchase just one aircraft. This aircraft will have to be shared between the air force and the Navy three and a half days per week. The creative destruction cycle will happen on other frontiers as companies are bad at creating something that US government doesn't know how to buy from them. And it's very likely that the Skunk Works mentality ends up solving more problems for our country, but probably not from the Skunk works division of Lockheed Martin.