DoD Buzz/Military.com: McCain Wants to Fire Those Responsible for Weapons Cost Overruns
The chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee is playing hardball with the Pentagon when it comes to acquisition programs that end up billions of dollars over budget or deliver years late.
In a hearing before the committee Thursday, Sen. John McCain took to task Ellen Lord, the new under secretary of defense for acquisition, technology and logistics, for recent examples of acquisition malpractice, including the Army's Future Combat Systems and the USS Gerald S. Ford, the first of the Navy's new class of supercarriers.
FCS was canceled in 2009 after six years of work and more than $6 billion in taxpayer investment; the Ford was delivered earlier this year, more than $2 billion over budget and 15 months later than expected.
McCain said he asked Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson who was responsible for cost overruns and was told Richardson didn't know.
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WNU Editor: Hmmmm .... after spending years being the chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee ... and supporting every defense budget while asking for more ..... Senator John McCain is now concerned about cost over-runs and procurement problems?!?!?
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New program and new project are always paired with cost over-run and delivery problem. John McCain must know that more than anybody else, and, if he has forgotten it, he just need to go to retirement.
We need Term Limits more than anything.. This guy is something else..
Since responsibility is partially yours, why not step down as an example?
The people that issue the RFP are not the ones who award the program and are not the ones who set the initial requirements and are not the ones who generate the multiple changes orders. On huge projects, all the gov players change out many times. Who then is responsible?
the folks who once loved John M. now love Trump and so no longer love John. And that now means John is old, senile; but Trump is old and fit as a fiddle. As for term limits: reward someone who does a great job by telling him he can no longer run for office? And if so, then an elected person will know the time is limited so get all you can for yourself because good or bad job does not matter. In fact, if your term is automatically ended, why bother even showing up once elected? Just collect the check till term over
Cost overruns often come when people change requirements in the middle of development.
A case in point is the M2 Bradley fighting vehicle.
Watch the movie "The Pentagon Wars". If is a dark comedy, but it still shows the grist of the problem.
www.imdb.com/title/tt0144550/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pentagon_Wars
Another reason for poor performance or cost overruns is Congressmen picking winners and losers, when it comes to Defense contracting. This happened with an air defense gun.
There is a jody that starts pout
"Hey, hey peckerhead, I heard what you said ..."
We heard you MmcShame.
Anon had a good comment.
Fred did not.
Fred,
People did not like John McCain in 2008. They voted for Palin not McCain. People held their noses to vote Republican. That old coot, McShame, suspended his campaign due to the banking crisis. Obama did not.
People did not like McShame because he called for amnesty in 2007 and tried to push it through along with GWB.
You would know this if you were not such a Kool Aid drinker.
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Lets draw you a stick figure. People who were for a wall and against amnesty, were against McCain's push for amnesty in 2007 and they have been for Trump since 2015, because he says build a wall. Those people are being consistent.
Fred, seriously, try to get you elevator all the way to the top.
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