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Posted on 10/20/2011 8:57:40 AM PDT by martosko
A recent spike in air traffic control errors is likely attributable to a change in the Federal Aviation Administration’s chosen contractor for training air traffic controllers, The Daily Caller has learned.
That change was likely the result of an government contracting shuffle orchestrated by an FAA official and her lover -- a former FAA official who worked for Raytheon at the time the contract was awarded. Raytheon won the contract, worth nearly $1 billion.
Potentially deadly aircraft incidents attributable to control tower mistakes have increased dramatically in recent years. Professor Jack Williams of Georgia State University told The Daily Caller that these operational errors averaged 10.8 per month between December 2008 and October 2010 -- a startling 3,300-percent increase compared to the period between January 2007 and November 2008.
Bush’s fault.
Well lets hope both are now former FAA officials.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Maureen-Keegan/100000905374489#!/profile.php?id=100000905374489
Here is a picture of the couple and it appears they both still have their jobs.
Another reason NOT TO FLY!
It would have been most helpful to the readers of this article to have a listing of at least the top most egregious errors the article is about. Otherwise we have a couple of people getting married, and by doing so raising some eyebrows.
I’m concerned, but I don’t know about what.
They were both married with kids when they first got together. He was an FAA executive and she was a subordinate. Rumor has it that they were caught in a compromising position in the back of an FAA airplane. Both divorced their spouses, left the FAA, got married, and now she’s back in the FAA.
Imagine what that former federal employee is making now working for the contractor, before he probably got fired. This is going on all over--federal employees retiring and becoming overpaid contractors affiliated with the agency they retired from. But it's the federal salaries of people who stay with the gov't, trying to make it in the same region as these overpaid contractors, who are the problem and it's THEIR salaries and jobs that need to be cut, right? No one talks about the federal contractors who typically have more slots and are making much more almost across the board.
At the senior management level, the FAA is a Peyton Place awash in incompetence.
Back in the Clinton years, the order when out to “increase opportunities for women and minorities who were underrepresented in the management ranks”.
As a result, women and minorities were dumped into the management positions regardless of ability or experience. White males were even told, off the record of course, that their career advancement is over.
The women and minorities who were then placed in the junior management positions have now advanced to the senior management positions. They haven’t gotten any smarter or wiser, just older. Not a few, perhaps including this woman, were bashful about using their sex (all interpretations) to advance their careers. And not a few developed political connections to further advance their careers of incompetence (remember Linda Daschle?).
THe contractor gravy train is the exception. On the whole, the government worker is vastly overpaid compared to the average contractor working for that agency and doing all the work that the federal employees are no longer capable of doing.
Don’t confuse the federal worker who becomes a contractor making big bucks from his cronies in the agency he worked with the average contractor employee who is nowhere near as compensated as the federal worker, and who will lose his job at the completion of the task. The fed will live on forever.
Yeah, this worked out real well. What genius came up with this idea? Never let it be said that government bureaucrats are competent.
Another big reason to completely privatize or at least regionalize Air Traffic Control. Abolish the FAA and the TSA.
I’m concerned, but I don’t know about what.
The story has been around for a while...
From Feb, 2010 - more specific allegations...
Thanks for that. I’ll get around to reading your linked response as soon as I can. Most interesting topic, but this article albeit five pages was lacking in specifics.
THe contractor gravy train is the exception. On the whole, the government worker is vastly overpaid compared to the average contractor working for that agency and doing all the work that the federal employees are no longer capable of doing.
Don’t confuse the federal worker who becomes a contractor making big bucks from his cronies in the agency he worked with the average contractor employee who is nowhere near as compensated as the federal worker, and who will lose his job at the completion of the task. The fed will live on forever.
THe contractor gravy train is the exception. On the whole, the government worker is vastly overpaid compared to the average contractor working for that agency and doing all the work that the federal employees are no longer capable of doing.
Don’t confuse the federal worker who becomes a contractor making big bucks from his cronies in the agency he worked with the average contractor employee who is nowhere near as compensated as the federal worker, and who will lose his job at the completion of the task. The fed will live on forever.
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