According to the second article, SN manufactures for a number of others (including Outlaw). Manufacturing does not imply requirements definition, specification, design, engineering implementation, testing, certification and field trials. I personally am a huge proponent of letting others that have large economies of scale handle the manufacturing provided that all of the other activities that I mentioned are done correctly. Manufacturing issues are very rarely the fault of manufacturing per se. The vast majority of the problems I've seen are engineering-related.
