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I am traveling December 18th until December 31st 2024. I will get back to you after then.

Hello, I am genuinely interested in everything. I used read WP in my free time, but I decided it was time to give back. My background is in experimental design and aerospace engineering. However, you will rarely see me edit on that kind of work because I have spent enough time thinking about that.

If you want me to review your article please let me know.

cool tool: https://scholia.toolforge.org/topic/Q84263196

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Military Articles Close to Up Ranking

Project Azorian
4477th Test and Evaluation Squadron is pretty good but it needs sources to be cleaned up

Aerospace

Lawrence Korb of the Brooking Institute wrote about aerospace duopolies
https://www-tandfonline-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/doi/full/10.1080/00963402.2019.1628471
In the 1980's he worked as a lobbyist for Raytheon but was fired for not towing the line. One the call R. Gene Shelley. He was contacted by Melvyn R. Paisley and Everett Pyatt from the Navy and Carl Smith, who served on the Republican staff of the Senate Armed Services Committee.
You're in a lot of trouble. [Raytheon President D. Brainerd] Holmes says if you criticized Lehman's 600-ship Navy you should be fired." Assistant Secretary Pyatt had warned the chief of Raytheon's missile division that he would "stop assisting Raytheon with certain defense contracts" so long as Korb continued to criticize the defense budget. John Lehman coordinated some of the communication. https://go-gale-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/ps/retrieve.do?tabID=T003&resultListType=RESULT_LIST&searchResultsType=SingleTab&retrievalId=a7db5002-59f2-40b7-95e2-314558bebf1a&hitCount=1&searchType=AdvancedSearchForm&currentPosition=1&docId=GALE%7CA6809846&docType=Article&sort=RELEVANCE&contentSegment=ZGPP-MOD1&prodId=ITOF&pageNum=1&contentSet=GALE%7CA6809846&searchId=R1&userGroupName=wikipedia&inPS=true

https://access-newspaperarchive-com.wikipedialibrary.idm.oclc.org/us/new-hampshire/nashua/nashua-telegraph/1997/07-04/page-17/ "From 1989-1992 the annual value of defense mergers never exceeded $3 billion." In 1996 it was $24 billion.
Defense Secretary William Perry
LM CEO Norman Augustine
1998 defense bill
https://www.state.gov/new-start/ did the US and Russia stop doing NEW Start inspections? -- yes. Should be a big story when it eventually resumes
"Fallows asks why military spending keeps going up as the capability delivered goes down. I think a big part of the answer is that the Pentagon is still trying to run its affairs like a centrally planned economy, while our adversaries are increasingly being run as a free market." Interesting claim. Is it even true that adversaries are run as free market? "The only long-term answer I can see is to shift toward more of a free-market approach that gives commanders in specific geographic regions, or perhaps even units preparing to face specific threats, more flexibility to go out and procure systems and capabilities that meet their own needs. Doing so would require breaking the centrally planned budget and delegating more budget authority to lower levels." To what extent to officers feel like they have this control now? ^[1]

Fallows 1980s book National Defense. And a more modern book The Spoils of War could make some good reading material.

How did Total Package Procurement impact the industry
Is there a legitimate risk in mixing the government contract industry with the private market? Like the L-1011 example? Is there a benefit in separating them?
what happened to macdonnel douglas?
why did rolls royce go bankrupt?
Nunn-McCurdy violations would have been so common that enfourcing the bill would have resulted in nearly all DoD procurement ceasing
Weapon_Systems_Acquisition_Reform_Act_of_2009
The president is supposed to publish a national security strategy (NSS) to guide major defense acquisition programs (MDAPs); however, not all administrations have taken this seriously. Currently, Biden's is somewhat meaningful. It is brief and is not strong detail but not completely vacuous.
While the services calculate their own estimates for program costs before soliciting bids, they are required to replace these numbers with the winning contractor's estimate when formulating the fmal contract. According to Sambur, the result is that "the winning number is often too low . . . when, infact, the original DoD estimates are generally within 3 percent of the final cost."
GAO Director of Acquisition and Sourcing Management Michael Sullivan noted in testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee this year that GAO's annual studies of MDAPs "have consistently found that the vast majority of programs began system development without mature technologies and moved into system demonstration without design stability.

Inmarsat-6 F1

Want to make more content on this satellite. Need to research the Inmarsat Orchestra. Who is working on the I-8 payloads? Look more into the Global Xpress program. Potentially will make new Article on that.

Articles I worked on

Potential additional sources:

   Brooks, Andrew, "Century Telephone to Buy Out Pacificorp," Times-Picayune, June 14, 1997, p. C1.
   Centuryan, Monroe, La.: Century Telephone Enterprises, Inc., March 1981.
   "CenturyTel to Acquire 675,000 Access Lines from Verizon for $2.159 Billion," Business Wire, October 22, 2001.
   "Company Watch," Financial World, September 15, 1992, pp. 12-13.
   Darce, Keith, "Monroe Company Really Connecting; Century Telephone a Growth Leader," Times-Picayune, February 5, 1999, p. C2.
   ------, "No. 1 Stock; CenturyTel Stock the Most Valuable in LA.; Telecommunications Company Targets Fast-Growing Markets," Times-Picayune, May 16, 1999, p. K18.
   "Minding Its Own Business," Forbes, February 17, 1992, pp. 110-11.

Economy of Colorado

Found this page is quite lacking in detail. Will be adding to it over time. Just made the agriculture and Aerospace sections.

Articles I have reviewed

I did the PR and the author did not respond so it was archived. I think this should receive more attention.

Pinnacol Assurance Fund

Working on this article I made. Was rejected for not enough significance. I disagree with this assesment but am unwilling to fight for it.

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