Perception of the debt - overhead problem is
concealed by the characteristic feature of today's finance capitalism: an asset - price inflation of property markets, that is, rising land and stock market prices.
This happens because a key behavioural
characteristic of Defence Contractors is that they will always choose to
conceal technical risks identified early in the programme,
by engaging with procurement officials and getting them to focus on declared risks which ordinarily fall in the trivia category, whilst skilfully diverting their attention away from those really huge «show stopping» risks which they will only reveal later on, when things go wrong, to realise their objective of «growing» the Contract
by getting Abbey Wood Team Leader to raise Contract Amendments and / or let Post Design Services Contracts.