I’ve been reading a book of the Skunk Works (Lockheed Martin’s Advance Development Programs) history, and the story about the beginning of the stealth planes trapped me. This is a tale about spying, project management, applied science, military visionaries, processes improvement, politics and the most famous war night broadcasted on TV.
In the final article of the JSF posts series (Part I, Part II) I want to talk about (sorry this post is a little bit arid 🙂 ): Lessons learned and the positives risks of hte JSF competition program. A few details of the ongoing F35 procurement plan, extracted of the US Congress’ Government Accountability…
In the first post (On Project Management and Joint Strike Fighter Program (part I)) I introduced the JSF contract competition and I started to talk about Project management thoughts related to the Nova documentary about the JSF program. In this post I would like to continue with it. Writing as a scriptwriter of interlaced movies,…
I highly recommend you to view the following video about the Joint Strike Fighter contract competition for building the new All-in-one fighter for the USAF, Marines and Navy. You almost need two hours for watching it (you have the audio transcription in this site Nova Transcript). But please, read first this post. It’s about competition,…
