Lest anyone think the December Air Force decision to eliminate Boeing from the competition was due to Boeing's ongoing leadership failures manifesting first as engineering and manufacturing quality issues, and now as real-dollar design and manufacturing contract eliminations, the rumored reason for the elimination was over contract issues, specifically data rights and fixed bid terms [1].

Would welcome HN'ers with more detailed insights into the data rights and fixed bid terms that were the bones of contention.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/boeing-el...

The beer company? I guess if Doomsday comes, everyone getting really drunk on a stockpile may be as good as any other strategy.

Bewildered by this. SNC was the sole remaining bidder after Boeing withdrew a while ago due to the terms of the proposed contract. But, I have no idea what qualifies SNC to do this job. They've been working on DreamChaser forever and it might fly sometime soon. They have some other small airframe jobs (that I know about.) But have they done anything remotely close to the scope of a fleet of high-rel, secure, hardened systems capable of keeping a bunch of people alive in a nuclear attack scenario?

Boeing today is not the Boeing of yesteryear but if it was a fixed price contract on a job with development risk and potential scope creep, I can see why they didn't want to go forward.

https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/boeing-el...

Kind of surprised it's not a "Doomsday spaceship" these days.

Best place to survive a nuke war (ugh!) would probably be substantially outside of the atmosphere for an extended period of time.

> [...] has become increasingly difficult and expensive to maintain as parts become obsolete.

not sure obsolete is the right word?