Comments on: Billions for Pentagon Failures

By: crypt2121

crypt2121 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

The article is a bit dramatic. While GAO is doing its job, a good job, it has over and over again been wrong about the FCS program.

FCS has been restructured several times and had its schedule and requirements changed because of data cooming from Iraq causing increases in pricing. Most importantly, pricing increases were expected because unlike some projects, many FCS technologies DO NOT EXIST; they have to be invented. In some cases all together new manufacturering processes and equipement have to be created.

However, FCS is ahead of schedule. Live components are already in use in IRAQ (originally nothing was to available yet). And, FCS will spin out to full production years before originally intended.

There have been several effective rebuts to the GAO piece. Just type FCS into GOOGLE News.

For direct FCS information try:

http://www.heritage.org/Press/Commentary/021208e.cfm

https://www.fcs.army.mil/

http://science.howstuffworks.com/fcs.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Combat_Systems

By: shirleyphelpsroper

shirleyphelpsroper — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

All that was spoken about the hemorrhaging money and so forth is true! What you fail to address is WHY!! Why is this nation in this terrible mess? OH – please pick me!

God hates Doomed america! You are a nation of rebels against your God and you have NO cause!! You have Bible’s EVERYWHERE!! You won’t crack them and READ THE WORDS and OBEY YOUR GOD!! YIKES! The promise from God is that if you obey his commandments, he will bless you! You know what blessed looks like – this nation WAS blessed by God and God had great mercy upon her, and raised her to be a super power, a force to be reckoned with among all the nations of the world!! Well – you forgot the rock from whence you were hewn and you have forsaken the Fountain of Living Waters and you now rely upon BROKEN cisterns and you have enraged the Living God – your Creator – his NAME is Jealous and his NAME is The Lord of Hosts – The Man of War!! YIKES and OOPS! You have made God your #1 enemy. His promise to such a filthy and rebellious nation as this is that he will NOT ONLY NOT HELP you, but he will fight against you – HE will turn back the weapons that are in your hands and he will fight against you with a strong arm and an outstretched hand even in fury and in great wrath!! The nation with all her arrogance and pride has picked a fight with the God of eternity – what dumbass thinks they can win THAT fight?

PUT AWAY YOUR IDOLS – PUT AWAY YOUR FALSE GODS (begin with the catholic pedophile monster and go from there) PUT AWAY YOUR FILTHY MANNER OF LIFE!! Serve your God in truth!! Encourage your fellow countrymen to do the same!! THAT is the ONLY FIX for this problem – if you don’t do that – then face your certain destruction that you now SPRINT toward!!

Tell bimbo Bush to SHUT HIS ROTTING pretzel chute and OBEY HIS GOD!! He has done more arrogant polices of disobedience to the standards of God to bring the condign wrath of God upon this nation than ANY other president in history!!

God is avenging himself on this nation that will NOT receive correction nor instruction and you add daily to his rage by your dealings with his people. God has put the dirt cheap IED into the hands of your enemy

By: iamfrank

iamfrank — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

This Country is hemorrhaging money at every conceivable opening, the majority of defense contractors are akin to pigs at the tax dollar trough.
On the other end of this spectrum, as a small contractor submitting ideas in a BBA, the contractor is required to jump through multiple hoops to prove a concept.
Upon receipt of a rejection notice he or she, after spending thousands of dollars, still has nothing to show for their efforts.
The big contractors waste billions because there is no oversight; no performance standards.
There isn