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Boeing says it can’t make money with fixed-price contracts (arstechnica.com)
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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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[–] pdxfed 21 points 1 year ago

Flying Blind is a spectacular book, as much about the financial engineering that doomed GM and Boeing and many others took as their compass;, the safety and quality just the inevitable cost of cutting corners.

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/646497/flying-blind-by-peter-robison/