Boeing Looks Beyond JSF

Boeing Looks Beyond JSF: Boeing director of international market development Richard McCrary delivered a thought-provoking paper to last week's Defence IQ Fighter Conference in London. Coming from a philosophy graduate and SR-71 pilot who led Boeing's campaign to sell the Super Hornet to Australia, it's worth attention.

McCrary advanced a concept that was new to me: the idea of a "half-life of technology":

The point at which break-through characteristics that can have a disruptive effect and provide a dominant capability are effectively countered, emulated, exploited and/or copied; thus devolving to a desirable design characteristic, a necessary but insufficient design element.

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