No military service has currently shown that its leaders can create affordable procurement programs. Every service has, to some extent, mortgaged its future by failing to contain equipment costs, and by trading existing equipment and force elements for developing new systems that may never be procured in the numbers planned.More and more 'experts' are saying the same thing. Will our government act?
The end result is an ill-concealed struggle to solve the resulting procurement problems by either raising the defense budget or somehow getting more funding at the expense of other services and programs. The US defense procurement system has effectively become a “liar’s contest” in terms of projected costs, risk, performance, and delivery schedules.
Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Not Mincing Words
The Center for Strategic and International Studies just issued a report on the status of our military aircraft programs. They are not optimistic when they say:
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