From The Danger Room:
If there’s one thing that I’ve learned from years of covering the Pentagon acquisition game, it’s this: Nothing ever really dies.
Take the Air Force’s next-generation bomber. As part of a scrub-down of the defense budget, Gates effectively canceled a new stealth bomber that was originally scheduled to enter service in 2018. “The program that was on the books is terminated,” Gates told senators last week, although he allowed that “the idea of a next-generation bomber, as far as I’m concerned, is a very open question.”
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My Comment: One can (legitimately) say that some of these programs are just too big to fail.
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