If today was the day President John P. Kennedy issued his unprecedented call to send an American to the Moon within a decade, could the U.S. aerospace and defense industry still do it?rnPerhaps, but there is enough doubt to warrant apprehension, according to an informal poll recently of high-ranking industry members. The question does not come down to one of technology or even money, but of the ability by industry and its government customer to lead and deliver on their promise.rnU.S. A&D programs have never been more lucrative, productive and important than they are now-and they have never been more of a dismal failure, either. This paradox-climaxing amidst the global downturn, two overseas wars and a change in Washington's agenda-is now coming to a head, literally, in the form of program management.
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