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[Quintus Fabius]

Lockheed Martin zieht seine Klage bezüglich des Joint Light Tactical Vehicle zurück:

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Lockheed Martin just dropped its suit against the government for awarding the giant Joint Light Tactical Vehicle contract to truck-maker Oshkosh. Why now?

“After careful deliberation, Lockheed Martin has withdrawn its protest of the JLTV contract award decision in the Court of Federal Claims” was all the company would say. But it turns out neither the legal nor the technological aspects of the case were going well for the world’s largest defense contractor.

Six days ago, the judge refused to issue a stop-work order to Oshkosh, allowing them to keep working on JLTV while the case proceeded — a sign he didn’t consider Lockheed’s case compelling. Not quite two weeks before that, buried in a 472-page annual report, the Pentagon’s independent Director of Operational Test & Evaluation released a scathing assessment of the Lockheed JLTV prototypes’ reliability: Oshkosh’s winning entry lasted almost six times as long between breakdowns.

Ja wie ? Ein System von Lockheed Martin das nicht absolut perfekt und allem anderen überlegen ist ?!

The skills to build small numbers of high-cost stealth fighters and satellites don’t translate well to the lower-tech world of truck-building, where Oshkosh had the homefield advantage.

The reliability requirement for JLTV was to average 2,400 miles between significant failures. (Mean Miles Between Operational Mission Failure, MMBOMF, is the technical term). The current uparmored Humvee beats that, reaching 2,968 miles. Oshkosh’s entry hit it out of the park with 7,051 miles. Lockheed’s fell well short, at just 1,271 miles.