Norm Augustine aircraft cost projection and socio-engineering framing

Augustine's log-plot prediction that by 2020 the entire Air Force budget would buy one aircraft; by 2045 the entire DoD budget would buy one. Used as the bridge into externalities-as-a-discipline.

That's what Norm Augustine's talking about here. Anybody know who Norm Augustine is — what his history is? Norm Augustine is one of the non-MIT members of the MIT Corporation. He was an engineer, he became chairman of Lockheed Martin Corporation, he became president of the National Academy of Engineering. He's a very articulate spokesman for engineering, and he's a very bright, very practical man.