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David Packard pitches prototyping

November 21, 2018 Eric Lofgren 0

There are two practices which have consistently led to excessive costs and unsatisfactory results in the development and procurement of weapons systems. One is the excessive reliance on paper studies and paper analysis. The other problem is the concurrency between development and production.

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