That’s more or less what happened with the littoral combat ships. It’s like the McDonald’s ice cream machine model of weapons system design.
The other wild things is that navies traditionally wildly overstaff their ships so they can do all their repairs themselves and fast. But when they switched to this contractor model they didn’t fully unload the staff, so they had a bunch of repair technicians on board who couldn’t do anything.
No, here is usually some redundancy designed in - by having 3 or 4 units, so if one fails there is a backup. But only the OEM is allowed to maintain the kit under contract. And surprise surprise, the terms of the repair contract usually involve insane rates for contractors and spare parts. Which the OEM withholds to extort even more.
wtf, so you’ll have to call contractors on the battlefield or what?
That’s more or less what happened with the littoral combat ships. It’s like the McDonald’s ice cream machine model of weapons system design.
The other wild things is that navies traditionally wildly overstaff their ships so they can do all their repairs themselves and fast. But when they switched to this contractor model they didn’t fully unload the staff, so they had a bunch of repair technicians on board who couldn’t do anything.
can I apply for this position but full remote?
No, here is usually some redundancy designed in - by having 3 or 4 units, so if one fails there is a backup. But only the OEM is allowed to maintain the kit under contract. And surprise surprise, the terms of the repair contract usually involve insane rates for contractors and spare parts. Which the OEM withholds to extort even more.