There are consequences to elections and there are certainly consequences over one company raping this government for a couple of planes. Obama and Hillary would have stood for it. Donald won’t
They have to deal with THE TRUMP. The meteor hit. The dinosaurs are all dead
Trump is right about AF1.
The USAF pmo on that one is run by a twinkie zoomie who probably has a hard time buying a Toyota on her own much less a modified 747.
Boeing is putting her together and racking up big numbers. Time for an adult to put a stop to the spending.
When they start talking F-35, LCS, and Ford-class aircraft carriers then I’ll believe it.
With Trump rebuilding the military, Boeing will make billions, they need to discount a few items, like AF-1.
Major Garret, the anti-Trump reporter on CBS, said Trump cancelled the order because the President of Boeing said he disagreed with one of Trump’s policies.
Now Major, you are speculating, STOP it, that’s called liberal anti-trump bias and people are tired of it.
The bigger issue with Boeing is their contract with China to build a state of the art manufacturing facility in China to produce state of the art aircraft surrendering production technology and American jobs. Hope Trump makes it very uncomfortable for them because now Mcdonnell Douglas wants to off shore all F-16 production to India. National Security implications as well as jobs.
Give contracts are notorious for over runs on budget and failure to deliver on time
Good for Trump
They’ll soil themselves if he says to Halliburton “C’mon... you can do better than that. “
I am employed by a mid atlantic medical system. We have 12 hospitals and over 22,000 employees. Our consolidated annual gross revenue is not much than Boeing wants for 2 airplanes.
What a stupid op ed. Boeing and the defense industry will thrive under Trump. But boondoggles won’t.
Remember when Hillary was claiming he owed a lot of contractors a lot of money - I'd wager they reneged on what they contracted to do and he doesn't believe in rewarding such crap.
My experience with Defense Contracting, particularly small batch orders, is the bulk of the “cost over runs’ are caused by the military project managers.
For some reason, excessive ego (based on rank?), the project managers are unable to keep their hands off the SOW and other contractual devices. They ignore the fact that almost every change means changes to hardware already completed plus changes to hardware on the assembly lines. That’s where the cost overruns begin.
Add to this such detailed requirements as “equal to or better than ...” and over runs are built into the system.
The final nail is there is no punishment for badly managed programs in any service. When was the last time you heard of a program manager being recalled to active duty and reduced in retirement grade because his program was so badly managed - late, didn’t meet specifications, and cost 10 times the budgeted amount? Think LCS, F-35, and the Navy’s newest destroyer.
OK. Now tell Lockheed and hammer them for the mess of the F-35 program.
That’s the difference between Bush’s privatization and Trump’s.
After cost estimates passed $13 billion for 28 helicopters, Obummer cancelled the bloated, over budget VH-71 program.
Double charging is noting new for defense contractors.
That worthless USS Zimwalt is nearly $4 Billion and congress wants 30+ of the stupid things. $800 K for 1 shell, $2 B to fully arm. Got stuck on maiden voyage and had to be towed back to Bath.
http://www.fi-aeroweb.com/Defense/DDG-1000-Zumwalt-Destroyer.html
FUBAR!