Lockheed Martin sues Pentagon over decision to award Oshkosh, not them, the JLTV contract

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[QUOTE=nuttyboffin;49778241]Are you kidding me? This is a huge company who will basically rely entirely on military spending. They can't exactly just go to another country and sell their weapons to them. They would get shut down and in all likely-hood several people would go to jail over state secrets.

If they don't get contracts, the company shuts down, 126,000 people loose their jobs, along with all the other companies that relied on lockheed martin for their paychecks. (small specialist firms like radar manufacturers etc.)[/QUOTE]

Well maybe instead of suing Oshkosh for getting the contract maybe they should've made a better product in the first place.

If that many people rely on Lockheed getting big defense contracts to keep their jobs then maybe Lockheed shouldn't have made a vehicle that was even [i]less[/i] reliable than the vehicle they were bidding to replace.

It would be a shame for [i]any[/i] of those 126,000 people to lose their livelihood over this situation, but lives literally are on the line in this case. Maybe not their lives, but the lives of the people these vehicles are meant to protect.