It turns out when LM, Raytheon, and NG put their heads together they're able to combine their incompetence and continue to produce underperforming products, behind timeline and over budget. Maybe that's the business model..

It’s not incompetence on industry’s part, it’s the plan to generate and sustain maximum profit. The incompetence is the gov’s speciality.

I don't doubt the maximizing profit part. When some of these tests fail after 10 years of development is it on purpose or incompetence? I guess it could sometimes be honest failures..

It sounds like you don’t know how the SEEK EAGLE process works in the USAF.