Elements of Power nails it on the new bomber.

Elements of Power nails it in his analysis of news on the new Air Force Bomber.  Read the whole thing and subscribe to him but this part had me saying out loud...damn it!  Why didn't I remember that!

Hey Phil? About that 'doing things differently' angle. If we would have bought 80-100 B-2s, in the first place the unit acquisition cost would have been far less than those "$550M" in 2010 dollars, and probably much less than that even in then-year dollars. CBO numbers for only 26 B-2s in the early 90s was $540M per plane. Northrop offered to sell the AF only half as many (40)  B-2Cs in 2001 for a fixed price of $545M/aircraft.

We've been down this road before and it looks like we're going down it again.  Being penny wise and pound foolish!  I'm referring specifically to the offer by Northrop of selling the plane for a fixed price!

Wow.

Perhaps what we really need in our Defense Procurement System are a group of historians.  We seem to keep forgetting ours.