Progress Billings

  

Progress payments. They're made on progress billings.

ShipBuildCo has built the hull. They're billing $20 million for that part. Then comes the deck and skin. They'll bill $15 more in progress billings at that point. And so it'll go until they've billed $180 million and the whole new warship (Nukey the Nukester) is built.

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