http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/2002/06/fallows.htm “Uncle Sam Buys an Airplane.” “All this new thinking was in the service of an even blander-seeming, yet revolutionary, concept within the military: CAIV, or ‘cost as independent variable.’ In layman's terms this is nothing more than the idea that the airplane would be held to a cost target. In most military contracting, cost is the dependent variable.” 15:38