... escalation—none of them are a panacea. If the Services wished to benefit from more com-petition, they could encourage international competition and partici-pation in the construction of military ... with the requirements of regression models.1 In Table A.1, we present the entire universe of aircraft considered in the analysis and indicate which aircraft form the chunks used in analyses of ... slightly below the rate of consumer inflation.By contrast, customer-driven variables, such as the technical char-acteristics of an aircraft, procurement rates, and complexity of the air-frame,...