A full (and costed) design for the new warheads was supposed to be unveiled in December.
The firms said at the time that they would be able to "quickly develop a comprehensive and fully costed design".
Last year, as the devoted reader will recall, three low-cost design experts tackled the problems of my Greenwich Village apartment.
"What we've hit on is a low-cost design point and used our fast design to get to market first," he said.
As Alan Sugar discovered to his cost, design is our route to jobs was corrected to remove a reference to there being no Ukrainian passenger planes.
But yesterday the public sector partners involved in the scheme said it was "no longer viable" due to rising costs, design changes and potential planning problems.
Even after that, there were fierce arguments about the memorial's location, cost, design and even the materials used in its construction.
The walls are plastered with Yale ephemera from the late 1910s to the '20s, a nod to the company's New Haven roots and a low-cost design feature.
A minimum cost design procedure is presented for a sandwich beam with constant cross-section.
The other two-thirds are soft costs: design, logistics, handling, [and] transportation.
Also on Maloney's check list: a low-cost design of the network.
