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Boeing says it can’t make money with fixed-price contracts (arstechnica.com)
submitted 1 year ago by L4s to c/technology
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Boeing says it can’t make money with fixed-price contracts::"Rest assured we haven't signed any fixed-price development contracts, nor intend to."

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I was under the impression that those sweetheart deals were getting hard to come by, but I don't work bids.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

There's still a few out there. Take Clear for example, the subscription line skipping service that works alongside TSA.

Somebody's palms got heavily greased to allow this company to thrive in the airport security space.

[–] AbidanYre 2 points 1 year ago

Admittedly, it was quite a while ago that I had anything to do with government contracting, so you could be right.