Comments on: The $265 Million Misunderstanding

By: FidelGonzales

FidelGonzales — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 15:38:44 +0000

The ultimate guarantee to any peace initiative is a powerful military that stands at the ready to engage any threat of peace and vehemently destroy it.
”…whereas people elsewhere are dying of starvations…“
This is because those people lack to fortitude to revolt against their oppressors and the US has yet to save their ass.

By: B628537

B628537 — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 13:37:56 +0000

This plane was essentially designed to keep military corporate conglomerates like Lockheed in business, but not a plane the military really has a need for. It is on par in performance with the F-18, not as stealthy as the F-22, and is more damaging on runways than any other plane. It eats fuel like a hog and cannot manage to meet the military specs on combat range without refueling immediately after take off. The “B” version has a forward fan that is too intricate and complex, making it prone to mechanical failure at the critical moments on takeoffs and landings. It is an aircraft is being sold on the context of versatility, yet doesn’t do anything any better than the planes it is meant to replace. On top of that, the costs of production has now climbed on the F-35 to where it as every bit as expensive as the far superior F-22 to make. The military ought to wise up and dump this piece of junk, and stop letting the corporate world dictating to the Pentagon what the military needs.

By: Judas Isgood

Judas Isgood — Tue, 14 Aug 2007 23:24:58 +0000

Y’all always talking about tax payers money. Why don’t tax payers advice government to use funds for human development instead of human destruction? Why must they invest huge sums of money on weapons instead of making peace initiatives. What all Americans think about is WAR WAR, whereas, people elsewhere are dying of starvation. USE YOUR WISDOM NOW COS EVEN THE GREATEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD WILL FALL ONE DAY. God is watching how you guys are utilizing the prosperity He has given you.

By: William Bond

William Bond — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 12:39:38 +0000

Been there, seen this. Problem is in the officers that are the TRCOs (Technical Representative of the Contracting Officer). The need to be held accountable and informed that if they oversee a contract they can NEVER work for that company. I saw the smae kind of thing when I was working onthe GPS system. We got a software release that created 50% more defects than it cleared and the TRCO told me “The way the contract is written, we have to take whatever they (IBM)sends us”. Two weeks later he seperated (on a Friday) and went to work(on Monday)…Where? Take a Big Guess!

By: david

david — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 04:57:43 +0000

this is one in a hundred that we don’t know about
where contractors are F**King the tax payers
and poor over site because it don’t come out of there pockets! we need change in goverment period
point blank!

By: dave

dave — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 18:20:30 +0000

For years Boeing has done its best to be ethical and has quickly disclosed when mistakes were made. However, while they were open and honnest about such mistakes, they were getting skewered by the public and media while other companies continued to act unethically and hide it. It is good to see that Lockheed is trying to turn the corner. Instead of focusing on these companies that have proven they are policing themselves, more atttention needs to be paid to other companies such as foriegn owned companies that are buying up greater and greater percentages of our military industrial capability and companies that currently hold military contracts.

By: Sean

Sean — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 11:26:31 +0000

and also…no wonder they offered to pay it back with interest…if found guilty in court, they could be fined up to 3x the discrepancy. I know the interest is less than that, hence why they make it look like that are doing the right thing.

By: Sean

Sean — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 11:24:17 +0000

Government contracts continue to be unsatisfactorily monitored and scrutinized. Fraud investigations, allegations and corruption have been rampant since the beginning of time. It is time to clean this up, and prosecute and severly fine corporations for their “mistakes”. I am tired of hearing “oops” we made a mistake. If it hadn’t been noticed by someone else or they thought it might be investigated, I doubt we would have ever heard of it.

By: Sean

Sean — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 11:19:56 +0000

I hope this was under AFOSI investigation and that they were fined and warned. A mistake? It is a shame that fraud is so rampant, especially in larger contracts.

By: Paul Grove

Paul Grove — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 07:23:07 +0000

This reminds me of the early years of South-African democracy, where former ANC cadre’s were hired as ‘consultants’ by government officials and then accidentally added a extra zero on their consultancy fee when billing time came. I’m not kidding, one of them once used that excuse during a health dept. mismanagement scandal.