DOD finally got some payback from the failed A-12 project which was terminated in 1991.
The legislation provides the Navy with $198 million in credits from General Dynamics to install a deckhouse, hangar, and aft missile launching system on the second Zumwalt class destroyer and $198 million credit from Boeing for three EA-18G Growler electronic warfare aircraft.
This may be one of the longest waits for a refund on a bum gadget in history.
The article also mentions the F-35 in passing.
Something worth remembering...
"The A-12 I did terminate. It was not an easy decision to make because it's an important requirement that we're trying to fulfill. But no one could tell me how much the program was going to cost, even just through the full scale development phase, or when it would be available. And data that had been presented at one point a few months ago turned out to be invalid and inaccurate."
Secretary of Defense, Dick Cheney, 1991
H/T-NOSINT
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