Submit

We want your stories and poems! Are you an artist? Send us your work! Sliver of Stone starts accepting submissions for Issue 14 on October 1st, 2016. DEADLINE: January 15, 2017. Note: We consider a…

Source: Submit

F-35: DOD Forces Lockheed to Accept Price

ROSE COVERED GLASSES

“BREAKING DEFENSE”

“Pentagon got tired of talking with Lockheed and told them, here’s how much we’re willing to pay you. Take it or leave it.

Lockheed either accepts the government contract for 57 F-35s for roughly $6.1 billion or it goes to court to protest the government’s action.

In an extraordinary action, the F-35 Joint Program Office decided 14 or 18 months of negotiations was enough and has issued a “unilateral contract” for the latest Low Rate Initial Production contract to defense giant Lockheed Martin.

All terms had been agreed to by both sides except one — the price. This may well be the largest unilateral contract ever issued by the United States government. That’s what I’ve heard from two well informed sources, but we don’t have anything definitive yet.

“The definitized contract for LRIP 9 announced today was not a mutually agreed upon contract, it was a unilateral contract action, which obligates…

View original post 232 more words