{"id":178715,"date":"2018-09-09T18:49:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-09T23:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/09\/09\/the-mistake-jet-abides\/"},"modified":"2018-09-09T18:49:00","modified_gmt":"2018-09-09T23:49:00","slug":"the-mistake-jet-abides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/09\/09\/the-mistake-jet-abides\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mistake Jet Abides"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pogo.org\/investigation\/2018\/09\/exclusive-f-35-program-facing-another-setback\/\">there will be another delay for the f-35<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">The troubled $1.5 trillion F-35 program is not ready to begin the critical combat-testing phase, the Pentagon\u2019s testing director said in a previously undisclosed August memo obtained by the Center for Defense Information at the Project On Government Oversight (POGO). That decision marks another setback in the development of the Pentagon\u2019s largest acquisition program.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span> <span style=\"color: blue;\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/4872647-DOT-amp-E-Readiness-for-Formal-Entry-Into-F-35.html\">memo<\/a>, issued on August 24, 2018, says the program has not met the necessary entry criteria to begin the crucial combat-testing phase called Initial Operational Test and Evaluation (IOT&amp;E). It comes on the heels <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pogo.org\/investigation\/2018\/08\/f-35-program-cutting-corners-to-complete-development\/\">of the revelation<\/a>, reported first by POGO, that program officials have been trying to make it appear as though the program has completed the development phase, by altering paperwork to reclassify potentially life-threatening design flaws to give the appearance of progress rather than actually fixing them.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This has gotten to be a remarkably routine thing:&nbsp; The aircraft experiences problems, so the program managers move the goal posts.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s no way to develop a successful weapon system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It looks like there will be another delay for the f-35: The troubled $1.5 trillion F-35 program is not ready to begin the critical combat-testing phase, the Pentagon\u2019s testing director said in a previously undisclosed August memo obtained by the Center for Defense Information at the Project On Government Oversight (POGO). That decision marks another &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[384,381,588],"class_list":["post-178715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-aviation","tag-defense-procurement","tag-fail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178715"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}