“You understand ....”
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Yes i DO understand. Waaay more than you know. I socialize locally with some folks who work at a local firm that makes
missles. A really BIG player in the missle business. And these folks talk proudly of their latest jaunt to Disney World or the upcoming Christmas ski trip.
when I asked one recently who pays for this hardware he shamelessly and apologetically said; “well... YOU DO”. I already knew THAT. I wanted to smack the effing smug look right off his face. It makes me want to puke.
I’m ALL for making it work. Unfortunately we now HAVE to make it work because we have sunk so much money into it that it would be a waste to abandon it. That’s how all these - “we HAVE to have it” - defense programs are run. With 150K Pentagon Colonels “managing” the program. It’s ridiculous!
Cut the contractors budget by 50 percent and tell them that when they make the system operational and RELIABLE they will get a “for-performance” bonus. Then you will see them make their “engineering” staff work like Chinese coolies to get it right.
This country is BROKE! And we’re just wet nursing these bloated defense contractors like newborns.
Try selling that line to the hundreds of people laid off from defense contractors over the last few months, or the 5,000 former staffers of the Joint Forces Command which Gates shut down. The first article is from May, and there've been even more since then. Obama is quietly gutting the Pentagon to pay for his union-hack and welfare-queen constituencies.
And what makes you think that performance bonuses aren't already part of all these contracts?
So we can use this system to protect ourselves from our creditors. ;-)
What, Coleman Aerospace in Orlando?
I wanted to smack the effing smug look right off his face.
General O'Reilly of the Missile Defense Agency may have done that for you, when he halted target purchases from them.
O’Reilly’s decision was made after an MDA quality control team turned up major problems at Coleman’s facility, according to the source. The company “didn’t pass the 101 test” for quality control, the source told Aviation Week.
Your friends should hang their heads in shame. They gave everyone else in the industry a black eye when their shoddy work and lack of attention to detail sent their Hera missile splashing into the ocean, trashing the thousands of man-hours spent preparing for the test by soldiers and contractors alike.
Orbital Sciences has $1.1 billion and over 1,000 people, and Raytheon Missile Systems has 12,500 employees and $5.4 billion. Those two qualify for all-caps, Coleman doesn't.
The bloated contractor I work for just set a record in fielding new intel systems to the airforce.
People were working 24/7 to do it.