{"id":194014,"date":"2008-11-01T08:59:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-01T13:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/01\/206-billion-cost-growth-5-weapons-systems\/"},"modified":"2008-11-01T08:59:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-01T13:59:00","slug":"206-billion-cost-growth-5-weapons-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/11\/01\/206-billion-cost-growth-5-weapons-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"$206 Billion Cost Growth: 5 Weapons Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yep, just <a href=\"http:\/\/worldwidewarpigs.blogspot.com\/2008\/10\/five-weapons-had-206-billion-cost.html\">five weapons gave us $206 billion in cost overruns<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Lockheed Martin Corp.: F-35 Lightning II, $66.8 billion <\/li>\n<li>Boeing: Future Combat Systems, $69.7 billion<\/li>\n<li>Lockheed and Boeing&#8217;s: Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle, $18.5 billion<\/li>\n<li>General Dynamics and Northrop Grumman: Virginia-class SSN, $27.3 <\/li>\n<li>Various: Chemical Demilitarization program, $23.4 billion<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The last one covers a number of contractors, and is for destroying US Chemical warfare stockpiles.<\/p>\n<p>How the hell do you go <strong>that<\/strong> far over budget incinerating nerve gas? Just <strong>how much<\/strong> of this stuff is lying around in arsenals?<\/p>\n<p>Seriously DoD procurement is <strong>completely<\/strong> out of control, and it&#8217;s going to take us down the way it took down the USSR.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yep, just five weapons gave us $206 billion in cost overruns: Lockheed Martin Corp.: F-35 Lightning II, $66.8 billion Boeing: Future Combat Systems, $69.7 billion Lockheed and Boeing&#8217;s: Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle, $18.5 billion General Dynamics and Northrop Grumman: Virginia-class SSN, $27.3 Various: Chemical Demilitarization program, $23.4 billion The last one covers a number of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1038,1008,982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-defense-procurement","category-stupid"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194014"}],"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=194014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}