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- The Battle to Reform
UK Defence
Acquisition 
By Bill Kincaid
Foreword by Lord Robertson of Port Ellen
Cartoons by Jim Potts
£20.00 (plus £5.00 P&P), 404 pages
ISBN: 0855161388
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Shaping Future Strategic Capability: The F-35 Manufacturing Approach
By Dr Robbin Laird4 Nov 2009
Robbin Laird is Chief Partner of ICSA LLC, a Paris- and Washington-based aerospace and defence consulting company. The author visited Lockheed Martin production facilities at Fort Worth in December 2008 and July 2009 as well as Northrop Grumman's Baltimore manufacturing facility in July 2009.
He describes the new approach to manufacturing the F-35 and says that this significant advance has yet to be appreciated by the US authorities.
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