Gates Fires the Head of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Program

Read my Playboy article, “Lockheed Stock and Two Smoking Barrels,” that predicted this, amongst other LMT scandals.

http://www.playboy.com/magazine/features/lockheed/

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Gates fired the F-35 program head, just couple days after the main competitor, the Russian T-50, maid its first flight. Looks like somebody's nervous!

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As a former Project Officer at Carswell who developed several aircraft and had 39 successful projects in all, …on schedule, on cost or under, and met or exceeded all mission goals – the secret is simple; autonomy – the politicians must be insular from the Project Manager. He is selected for his expertise, he performs his mission , he delivers the project to meet all goals, and gives briefings as scheduled and is not to be interfered with otherwise.

Our best aircraft were developed without the big guys not even knowing the project Officer was building them they were so classified – and certainly not any of the politicians. I have developed aircraft that met or exceeded line aircraft by a factor of three for a fourth of the cost only to have them scrapped because of lobbyists and politicians. The hell with protection of America, what about the lining of the congressmen's pockets and the lobbyists and the future careers of some senior officers and their careers with existing companies like Grumman. I assure you Grumman will now get it's nose under the tent now that a Navy admiral is in the program, and how many of them end up working for Grumman after hanging up their stars in the procurement field?

I quit after having my last aircraft not fielded when several nations wanted to buy it and Grumman and the Navy ended up scrapping it to save the E-2C.

My hat is off to this fine Maj. General for doing his job and getting screwed, I once had a three page dissertation on me in the Washington Post – pages 1, 2, and 3 on how my project was going to cost over a billion dollars and never work. it cost 55 million and was 3 times as effective as an E-2C and was scrapped. The article was written by Casper Weinberger. Times do not change much – and I will bet that Grumman is in this picture somewhere also.

name withheld for obvious reasons – please withhold

As a former Project Officer at Carswell who developed several aircraft and had 39 successful projects in all, …on schedule, on cost or under, and met or exceeded all mission goals – the secret is simple; autonomy – the politicians must be insular from the Project Manager. He is selected for his expertise, he performs his mission , he delivers the project to meet all goals, and gives briefings as scheduled and is not to be interfered with otherwise.

Our best aircraft were developed without the big guys not even knowing the project Officer was building them they were so classified – and certainly not any of the politicians. I have developed aircraft that met or exceeded line aircraft by a factor of three for a fourth of the cost only to have them scrapped because of lobbyists and politicians. The hell with protection of America, what about the lining of the congressmen's pockets and the lobbyists and the future careers of some senior officers and their careers with existing companies like Grumman. I assure you Grumman will now get it's nose under the tent now that a Navy admiral is in the program, and how many of them end up working for Grumman after hanging up their stars in the procurement field?

I quit after having my last aircraft not fielded when several nations wanted to buy it and Grumman and the Navy ended up scrapping it to save the E-2C.

My hat is off to this fine Maj. General for doing his job and getting screwed, I once had a three page dissertation on me in the Washington Post – pages 1, 2, and 3 on how my project was going to cost over a billion dollars and never work. it cost 55 million and was 3 times as effective as an E-2C and was scrapped. The article was written by Casper Weinberger. Times do not change much – and I will bet that Grumman is in this picture somewhere also.

name withheld for obvious reasons – please withhold

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I think we live in a normal world ruled by crazy/IQless people.