Whistleblower Flareup
Illumination flares used by U.S. forces in search and rescue missions are supposed to pass a simple test: that they can be dropped from a height of 10 feet without igniting. A former employee of Alliant Techsystems Inc. says in a whistleblower lawsuit that the company provided flares to the military knowing they might not pass that test due to problems with their igniters. Later, the flares did in fact fail a Navy test.
Now the U.S. government has joined the whistleblower's suit. And if you think this is a small potatoes case, remember this: the Air Force and the Army bought $100 million worth of the flares.
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Yes, cheating and corruption is normal for any business inside the Beltway.
kmp Posted Tuesday, June 26, 2007 11:21 AMSo the song remains the same, and our fearless leaders want to further degrade our ability to detect such corruption by eliminating over sight on DOD contractors under the banner; we are forced to do more with less so we are now going to do less with less. The fox lives in the chicken coop.
mike Posted Tuesday, June 26, 2007 3:06 PMDITTO the first comment:
Been involved with contractor oversight for over 26 years.................
Joe Giedlinski Posted Wednesday, June 27, 2007 6:23 AM