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Billion-Dollar Flop
« on: December 09 2012, 09:39:31 AM »
Last month, it canceled a six-year-old modernization effort that had eaten up more than $1 billion. When the Air Force realized that it would cost another $1 billion just to achieve one-quarter of the capabilities originally planned -- and that even then the system would not be fully ready before 2020 -- it decided to decamp
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Re: Billion-Dollar Flop
« Reply #1 on: December 09 2012, 10:02:21 AM »
and, I was going to make a smart azzed remark that it must have been oracle...
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Re: Billion-Dollar Flop
« Reply #2 on: December 09 2012, 10:23:07 AM »
Happens more often than you would believe...
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