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  • "Front-loading is the practice of appropriating funds for a new weapons project based solely on assurances by its official sponsors about what it can do. This happens long before a prototype has been built or tested, and invariably involves the quoting of unrealistically low unit costs for a sizeable order. Assurances are always given that the system's technical requirements will be simple or have already been met. Low-balling future costs, an intrinsic aspect of front-loading, is an old Defense Department trick, a governmental version of bait-and-switch. (What is introduced as a great bargain regularly turns out to be a grossly expensive lemon.)"

    - Chalmers Johnson, 'The Looming Crisis at the Pentagon: How Taxpayers Finance Fantasy Wars', tomdispatch.com, 2 Feb 2009.

    February 3, 2009