Anechoic coating loss known issue for #US Virginia class submarines but this is worst I've seen via @DougieCoullPics https://t.co/GfQiu22gYg pic.twitter.com/jnj3TrHliX— Joseph Dempsey (@JosephHDempsey) June 12, 2017
Task & Purpose: Whistleblower accuses largest US military shipbuilder of putting ‘American lives at risk’ by falsifying tests on submarine stealth coating
America's largest military shipbuilding company has been accused of falsifying tests and certifications on stealth coatings of its submarines "that put American lives at risk," according to a complaint filed in federal court last month.
Huntington Ingalls Industries, which spun-off from Northrop Grumman in 2011, "knowingly and/or recklessly" filed falsified records with the Navy claiming it had correctly applied a coating, called a Special Hull Treatment, to Virginia-class attack submarines which would allow the vessels to elude enemy sonar, the Sept. 26 complaint alleges.
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Update: Photos: US Submarine Engineer Warns of ‘Falsified’ Certification for Stealth Coating (Sputnik).
WNU Editor: Huntington Ingalls Industries is America's largest military shipbuilding company. These accusations are very serious, and if true, damaging to both the company and it puts at risk the U.S. submarine fleet.
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Correct. .it puts the fleet at risk, but also the Triad, deterrence etc.. someone who does that for money. ..that's treason
The company won the contract. If the contract terminated for nonperformance, the company could go bankrupt. Thus the motive.
I would like to know when the company knew. Was it before contract award or after. Was it during prototyping?
I would like to know what the contracting officer knew and the engineers and scientists that help them knew. What did they do? The company had to submit tests.
There is more than company malfeasance here. There is government incompetence, go along and then stabbing the company and/or government employee malfeasance.
Yeah Anon.
On things like this the documentation should tell an interesting and quite illuminating tale
And if the documentation is either missing or insufficient, that would also put many heads on pikes.
There are open source DoD courses that person could learn the contracting & development process, since that a person does not pull a Statler and Waldorf routine like our dear ole ellipsis buddy.
'So' not 'since'
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