{"id":195992,"date":"2008-05-31T06:42:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-31T11:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/05\/31\/dutch-industry-getting-cold-feet-on-jsf\/"},"modified":"2008-05-31T06:42:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-31T11:42:00","slug":"dutch-industry-getting-cold-feet-on-jsf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/05\/31\/dutch-industry-getting-cold-feet-on-jsf\/","title":{"rendered":"Dutch Industry Getting Cold Feet on JSF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2002, the Dutch government agreed to invest &euro;858 million in developing the JSF, &#8220;on condition that it would not cost more than buying an aircraft off the shelf&#8221;, with significant offsets to the local aerospace industry.  <\/p>\n<p>As a part of this contract, the Dutch aerospace industry agreed to cover any shortfalls in funding, but this number has grown signifantly from the &euro;191 estimated in 2002, and  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defencetalk.com\/news\/publish\/airforce\/Industry_Protests_at_JSF_Deal_Costs100015833.php\">inudstry wants to renegotiate the deal<\/a>, claiming that, &#8220;financial benefits of the project are now far greater than originally thought and that the deal will benefit the taxpayer at the industry&#8217;s expense&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, they are saying that are getting hosed by cost escalation on the project, which is almost certainly true, and it will be getting a <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">lot<\/span> worse if the program continues in its current form.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2002, the Dutch government agreed to invest &euro;858 million in developing the JSF, &#8220;on condition that it would not cost more than buying an aircraft off the shelf&#8221;, with significant offsets to the local aerospace industry. As a part of this contract, the Dutch aerospace industry agreed to cover any shortfalls in funding, but &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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195992","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-defense-procurement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195992"}],"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=195992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195992\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}