A Boeing and a Raytheon employee complete installation of an APY-10 radar antenna on P-8A Poseidon test aircraft T2, November 2009. Boeing
Business Insider: The Pentagon expects major weapons programs to be held up for 3 months, but that may just be the start
* The Defense Department's top acquisition official said this week that the Pentagon expects a three-month delay on major weapons programs due to the coronavirus pandemic.
* The pandemic and the work stoppages it has caused have upended the defense industry, and it may still be to soon to tell what effect it will have on smaller firms within the sector.
The Defense Department expects three-month delay to major programs as the coronavirus ripples through supply chains, though it may still be too soon to know how long it will take those suppliers to recover.
"We believe that there will be a three-month impact that we can see right now, so we're looking at schedule delays and inefficiencies," Ellen Lord, the Pentagon's chief of acquisition and sustainment, told reporters Monday.
"That isn't a particular program. That's MDAPs in general," Lord said, referring to major defense acquisition programs, which includes purchases of and upgrades to items like aircraft and ships, without naming any specifically.
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WNU Editor: This 3 month expectation is based on the premise that the pandemic and the restrictions it has imposed will end soon. I am not that optimistic.
4 comments:
What pandemic?
In previous bad flu seasons did they genetically test a random sample of patients deemed to have died of flu? Was the surveillance that good?
It might have been in the last 5 or 15 years, but not in the 1990s and before.
I am trying to use properly worded queries to get past the Google haystack algorithms.
When did the US or rest of the world routinely test for any type of COVID in deaths presumed to be caused by flue or pneumonia in the past?
COVID 19 may not be novel. What may be novel is our ability to detect it on mass scale or our surveillance of it.
Did they retest the tissue samples of the 1918 flu epidemic of 1917 form ?Nome Alaska for COVID?
So we never routinely tested and had no surveillance before 2020 for any corona type?
"As a way to spot any community COVID-19 activity early, federal health officials will use the nation's flu surveillance system to look for people who may be infected with the disease.
US Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar first unveiled the plan yesterday. Its first phase will be launched at public health labs that are part of the flu surveillance system in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Chicago, and New York City."
CDC: Flu surveillance system enlisted in hunt for COVID-19 cases
www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2020/02/cdc-flu-surveillance-system-enlisted-hunt-covid-19-cases
Here's a thought.
Maybe COVID has been with us all along.
Just like 10% to 15% of colds are actually Corona instead of rhino, maybe a percentage of influenza cases every year have always been corona. We just don't know. Did we or do we know. In the past did the attending physicians always or ever look at a tissue sample under a microscope to look for corona?
In the past maybe the bad years for flu deaths could have been due to corona?
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