Happy New Year everyone. I don’t know what the new year will bring but it will certainly involve more goofed up defense procurement.
Happy New Year
ELP DEFENS(C)E BLOG
Happy New Year everyone. I don’t know what the new year will bring but it will certainly involve more goofed up defense procurement.
Happy new year from the Low Countries, best of wishes for the next to all. Keep on blogging!
Cheers.
Best wishes to everyone !!!
Happy New Year Eric, keep up the great work!
Well, it’s either the defens(c)e procurement which wiill remain goofed up, or the bloggers – in the case which afterall.. procurement is actually right most the time!
(p.s. Eric must get some sort of trophy for 2009s defense blogs?) Top 10? Voted.
A humble and honest New Year to all on Spaceship Earth…
Certainly Top 10 for amount of complaining about every major defense program!
Every? Well certainly the ones that resemble Ponzi schemes or sick pets ready to be taken to the pound to be put to sleep.
Of course we all have our opinions..but if, for example, you actually believed for a second that the LCS could ever cost even close to what they originally bid then you would probably, and rightly, deem the program a huge failure. However, if you don’t let the initial contract blind you to the cost and schedule realities of huge programs that involve high risk new technology development, you might be less pessimistic about the state of at least some of these programs =)
My point being, if they bid 1$ for the LCS and each ship ended up costing $200million, we’d probably be having this same conversation.
In fact, this is exactly what I’m talking about here: http://www.airforce-magazine.com/MagazineArchive/Pages/2009/November%202009/1109edit.aspx
Same thing is going to happen to this one that happened to the B1, B2, F22, Seawolf, DDG1000, etc etc. “we want the best weapon in the world, but we don’t want it to cost very much.”
Let’s come back to this thread in 15 years… I’ll mark my calendar for 12/31/24
LCS? It’s uninspired junk that takes up limited USN funds better used for something else. And while we are looking at the Littoral Combat Gyp lets look at the history of the program. The Navy brain donors claimed it would cost in the 200m region when they had NO HARD EVIDENCE TO back up that claim in front of Congress. (Look at the congressional hearings on this. it is sickly amusing).
No. The truth is Daddy can’t program manage and when it doubt, put it on a PowerPoint slide and some gullible sheep will believe it.