Crisis of Democracy in Vermont Over DoD F-35 Boondoggle

by Reposted by Military Truth | Jan 25, 2019 | Of Immediate Interest

I was a civil servant Systems Engineer working on the very first development of the F-35. A standard contractor mantra was to involve companies in each and every state, whether “qualified” to make the part(s) they were to be making or not, as manufacturing teams would travel to these future manufacturers to coach them to become qualified. The reason was to obtain maximum Congressional support via local jobs. Result was an over-priced, difficult-to-design and manufacture fault-free product when the emphasis is more on politics, than quality.