A few purchases have gone ok, in particular the Globemasters and new Hercules. The key seems to be that those were bought pretty much "off the rack".
Where they seem to really get bogged down is when try to customize equipment to a high degree. We end up with either hugely expensive orphan fleets that never work quite right ie Cyclone, or industry throwing up their hands and saying we can't do that ie the UAV program that now has to be reset.
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