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A very uncomfortable read. We are so screwed. This really highlights how out of control the spending has been with little to nothing to show for it. For example, $20 billion spent on Future Combat Systems for the Army, which after 9 years of mismanaged work, was deemed too ambitious of a project and scrapped. Just one example of how the military and it's budget is being mismanaged and in no shape for a major conflict.
“We were under such pressure to finish the assembly and integration on time, we were putting parts together that had never been assembled before,” recalls Mark Signorelli, who worked for contractors United Defense and later BAE Systems, which developed the NLOS-C.
In 2009, after spending $20 billion in eight years with little to show for it, the Pentagon canceled Future Combat Systems — run by Boeing Co. and SAIC — to avert what then-Defense Secretary Robert Gates termed a “costly disaster.”
“We were under such pressure to finish the assembly and integration on time, we were putting parts together that had never been assembled before,” recalls Mark Signorelli, who worked for contractors United Defense and later BAE Systems, which developed the NLOS-C.
In 2009, after spending $20 billion in eight years with little to show for it, the Pentagon canceled Future Combat Systems — run by Boeing Co. and SAIC — to avert what then-Defense Secretary Robert Gates termed a “costly disaster.”
A very uncomfortable read. We are so screwed. This really highlights how out of control the spending has been with little to nothing to show for it. For example, $20 billion spent on Future Combat Systems for the Army, which after 9 years of mismanaged work, was deemed too ambitious of a project and scrapped. Just one example of how the military and it's budget is being mismanaged and in no shape for a major conflict.
“We were under such pressure to finish the assembly and integration on time, we were putting parts together that had never been assembled before,” recalls Mark Signorelli, who worked for contractors United Defense and later BAE Systems, which developed the NLOS-C.
In 2009, after spending $20 billion in eight years with little to show for it, the Pentagon canceled Future Combat Systems — run by Boeing Co. and SAIC — to avert what then-Defense Secretary Robert Gates termed a “costly disaster.”
