Google, even with its immensely talented cofounders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, has gone to great strides to build asystematic innovation process that engages the whole organization.
Will the experience of the FS-X debate lead to a more orderly and disciplined U.S. interagency process on future projects of a similar nature, in particular the systematic involvement of Commerce and the U.S. Trade Representative in negotiations over defense sales with the Japanese?