The irony of this approach was that, like the original Electronic Data Systems contract, it embodied fashionable ideas at the time it was first formulated, but now that the Navy is ready to actually implement those ideas they look a bit outdated.

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The original tracking stock was an "E" class of share that General Motors issued in 1984 to take over Electronic Data Systems.

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