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  • All kinds of unforeseeable problems might arise that would increase the cost, things engineers call “unknown unknowns” or “unk-unks.”

    The Dream Machine Richard Whittle 2010

  • Fixed-price contracts would make sense once the Osprey went into production, but in FSD there were too many unk-unks.

    The Dream Machine Richard Whittle 2010

  • All kinds of unforeseeable problems might arise that would increase the cost, things engineers call “unknown unknowns” or “unk-unks.”

    The Dream Machine Richard Whittle 2010

  • Fixed-price contracts would make sense once the Osprey went into production, but in FSD there were too many unk-unks.

    The Dream Machine Richard Whittle 2010

  • All kinds of unforeseeable problems might arise that would increase the cost, things engineers call “unknown unknowns” or “unk-unks.”

    The Dream Machine Richard Whittle 2010

  • Fixed-price contracts would make sense once the Osprey went into production, but in FSD there were too many unk-unks.

    The Dream Machine Richard Whittle 2010

  • Or maybe it can ask Donald Rumsfeld to explain about the "unk-unks" again.

    Congress and the Unknown Unknowns 2009

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