Comments on: “Big Mistake:” No Dough For Space Radar

By: Michael

Michael — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:38:38 +0000

Why not take a chapter from a Dale Brown book, and use NIRTs? Easy, cheaper, and on time.…

By: frank

frank — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 03:25:56 +0000

This has been a long time coming. From all the mergers and acquisitions in the Defense industries to the ‘Peace Dividend’ that Cheney trumpeted when he cut a lot of programs after DS/DS.

I saw companies just dump competent people because they cost too much and they needed to pay huge bonuses to managers.

With all the base closures they also lost a lot of resources. And a lot of employees.

There are easily 30,000 out of work engineers. There is no reason we can’t ramp back up. Except the AF doesn’t care.

By: Tomcat

Tomcat — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 01:27:23 +0000

This is how we got to this state:

“[a]ll for ourselves, and nothing for other people, seems, in every age of the world, to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind.” (Book 3, Chapter 4, The Wealth of Nations)

Thank you Al for the excellent reference. And keep wishing Duck. Maybe you’ll get that pony. Although I think it will be “My Little Pony”

By: Big Al

Big Al — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 22:50:52 +0000

Get real anybody with a fifth grade education that read The Wealth of Nations could have told you these things would happen. We simply have a corrupt government, feeding a corrupt group of lobbyists, getting bigger paydays from foreign powers than they do here. Anybody know how to get the electronics industry back? Go to work for $.17 an hour and sleep in company owned dorms. Sorry guys but this didn’t happen in a vacuum. This will only stop when the American voter starts a new party that will take care of business over monkey business.

By: BroJohn

BroJohn — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 21:21:54 +0000

““We have allowed the industrial base for this capability to decay to almost zero. None of it is being developed by us. It is sickening,” the source said.”

For 25 years, I’ve watched our industrial capability devolve to the point that we no longer have the ability to reconstitute it. Maybe if we ask really nice, the Chinese will help us out.

It’s a shame that we swapped productive capability and capacity for the paper-trail wizards and high fliers of The Wall Street Finance firms and Inverstment Bankers.

By: DensityDuck

DensityDuck — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 02:06:24 +0000

“We are going to have to find ways to move forward without the appropriators,” said a Pentagon source familiar with the program. ”

I dunno. I’ve heard the DoD say stuff like this before, and I haven’t really seen it come off yet.

Although, that said, there is a clear division of capability here, so it’s entirely appropriate for the DoD to take over “tactical” space radar, while the NRO keeps the “strategic” space radar. I think that this would be a good program for a service-independent acquisition board to cut its teeth on. And as long as I am dreaming I would also like a pony.