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[[John Lehman was Secretary of the Navy under Ronald Regan]]
[[He supports competition for the JSF engine]]
[There's no question competition is ]
[the only answer when you have important programs,]
[and it's the only answer to ]
[come down the learning curve in costs.]
[what kind of an Alice in Wonderland the]
[Pentagon is that anyone can argue]
[against competition, but they do it, so orthodoxy in the ]
[Pentagon is no competition. ]
[We'll get the cost down, which of course is a pipe dream. ]
[[Lehman says history shows competition saves money.]]
[disasters with the F-15s and F-16s.]
[That was the sole-source engine.]
[It had stall stagnation problems, ]
[it resulted in explosions, it resulted in ]
[lost aircraft, and killed pilots and people on the ground. ]
[The F-14, 30 percent of the accidents ]
[that was the sole-source engine. ]
[It wasn't until the GE competitive engine]
[came in and was put into the F-14D]
[that the accidents from engine failure]
[[Lehman says a JSF competition is a chance for the Pentagon to get it right.]]
[Competition works, and that's why ]
[this engine competition is so critical,]
[because it will show the way]
[to reverse what's happening across the board]
[in procurement because this is going to bring about]
[cost reductions and reliability ]
[improvements that will save lives the ]
