UK MoD bungs Boeing £500m to plug gap left by a system it should have provided under £800m contract from 2010

'Fragile and ageing legacy systems' need to be replaced – now

The UK's Ministry of Defence has awarded Boeing Defence UK a £500m contract without external competition to replace "fragile and ageing legacy systems" it had already been charged with swapping out as part of a 2010 contract.…

from The Register