money left in the budget (project)

 
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[[ Navy, seacraft ]]

Theodore Rockwell., The rickover efffect : how one man made a difference / 1992,  
p.339
“When you've done 90 percent of the work on a project, you'd better have 50 percent of the money left in the budget.”

   (The rickover efffect : how one man made a difference / Theodore Rockwell.,  1. rickover, hyman george.,  2. nuclear submarines ── united states ── history.
3. admirals ── united states ── biography.,  4. united states.,  navy──biography, V63.R54R63  1992,  359.3'2574'092--dc20,  united states naval institute,  Annapolis, Maryland, 1992 )
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[[ aircraft, military ]]

Ben R. Rich and Leo Janos., Skunk works: a personal memoir of my years at Lockheed, 1994

p.325
that final 10 per cent striving ... costs 40 per cent of the total expenditure on most projects. 

p.283
it's more important to listen than to talk.
decisive:  even a timely wrong decision is better than no decision.
don't half-heartedly wound problems ── kill them dead.

   (Skunk works: a personal memoir of my years at Lockheed / Ben R. Rich and Leo Janos., 1. lockheed advanced development company ─ history., 2. rich, ben r. ─ career in aeronautics., 3. aeronautics ─ research ─ united states ─ history., TL.565.R53  1994, 338.7'623746'0973, 338.7623  rich, 1994, )
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[[ aircraft, military, avionics ]]

Ben R. Rich and Leo Janos., Skunk works: a personal memoir of my years at Lockheed, 1994

 • “Avionics is the killer expense, costing about $7000 a pound in a new airplane.”,  Ben R. Rich and Leo Janos., Skunk works: a personal memoir of my years at Lockheed, 1994, p.322 [field / discipline: aircraft development]

p.321
development costs of fighters
unit procurement costs have risen 11 per cent every year since 1963!

p.322
we didn't start from scratch but adapted off-the-shelf avionics developed by others
Avionics is the killer expense, costing about $7000 a pound in a new airplane.

p.325
that final 10 per cent striving ... costs 40 per cent of the total expenditure on most projects. 
([ the first 90 per cent of the work ... costs 60 per cent of the total expenditure ]) 

   (Skunk works: a personal memoir of my years at Lockheed / Ben R. Rich and Leo Janos., 1. lockheed advanced development company ─ history., 2. rich, ben r. ─ career in aeronautics., 3. aeronautics ─ research ─ united states ─ history.,  
TL.565.R53  1994, 338.7'623746'0973, 338.7623  rich, 1994, )
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