Posted on 02/23/2013 1:34:37 PM PST by IbJensen
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Oh and the reason I don’t go to the outside world is, the contractors who work for DoD do not have the country’s best interest in heart only their company’s’ profit margin !!!
I resent that remark. I was the lead designer (DoD contractor)on two of the six enabling technologies for the X-30 national aerospace plane and have nearly two dozen aircraft types with designs on them. I can’t count the number of government engineers that took the road to glory riding on my back. If you ever see Americans streaking across the sky like a meteor it will be because of us.
Resent it all you want. Fact is, DoD contractors only care about award fees and incentive fees. Too bad their engineers get screwed and their managers are the ones who get the big bonus. As Lockheed for example, they treat the DoD as a welfare program for their overpaid engineers. They know who signs their paychecks, so they are not beyond creating makework projects. And why didn’t X-30 fly?? Too damn expensive for any potential return on investment.
Unfortunately this gaggle doesn’t work for us; rather, they work on us.
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