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Lockheed Martin, Boeing May Team Up in Project for Pentagon.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, February, 2000 by Piller, Dan
Feb. 15--The latest evidence that politics makes strange bedfellows: The Pentagon may soon ask rival bidders Lockheed Martin and Boeing to bunk together for the proposed joint strike fighter.
Working together is not unusual for the military contractors. But the joint strike fighter has been billed as a winner-take-all contest since 1996.
It would be a giant victory. The Pentagon has talked about production of 3,000 planes worth $200 billion. The deal will be the last major tactical fighter contract until at least 2030. Lockheed Martin has said that if it wins the contract, the plane will be built in Fort Worth.
The problem, industry analysts say, is that the winner-take-all approach may not prove politically palatable because of fears that...
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