{"id":193812,"date":"2008-11-15T06:49:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-15T11:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/15\/another-award-another-protest\/"},"modified":"2008-11-15T06:49:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-15T11:49:00","slug":"another-award-another-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/15\/another-award-another-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Award, Another Protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this case it&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/aw\/blogs\/defense\/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&amp;plckScript=blogScript&amp;plckElementId=blogDest&amp;plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&amp;plckPostId=Blog%3A27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3Ace555cf5-9e9f-4841-ad42-a6ea4807c6a9\">JLTV Award<\/a>, and all work on the Humvee successor is on hold pending resolution of the protest.<\/p>\n<p>The problem is that there is no downside for protesting awards, so the loser has a vested interest in <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">always<\/span> protesting, no matter how slight the chance of success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this case it&#8217;s the JLTV Award, and all work on the Humvee successor is on hold pending resolution of the protest. The problem is that there is no downside for protesting awards, so the loser has a vested interest in always protesting, no matter how slight the chance of success.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1008],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-procurement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193812"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}