re: #167 Nerdy Fish

That is not what I said. I said the DoD could do it. That is miles away from, “Any old Joe Schmoe could do it.” In practice, it would probably look a lot like the Boeing acquisition, except nobody on the McDonnell-Douglas side would be getting any money out of it.

I got a little too flippant at the end. My point was that there’s no easy way to move these large processes. And from my person experience, even moving the small things is hard. My company, a part of the MIC, makes a product and the government decided to foster competition by copying it and giving it to another company. After about four years, they brought what the other company had done to us and told us to make it work. And it is magnitudes smaller than an airplane.

At best, the company dies fast enough that another company can replace the top, but not the rest. But Boeing wouldn’t die fast enough. So the question becomes how to fill that defense hole.