{"id":184038,"date":"2012-08-25T20:32:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-26T01:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/08\/25\/what-senior-military-officials-are-willing-to-put-sailors-at-risk-to-appease-defense-contractors\/"},"modified":"2012-08-25T20:32:00","modified_gmt":"2012-08-26T01:32:00","slug":"what-senior-military-officials-are-willing-to-put-sailors-at-risk-to-appease-defense-contractors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2012\/08\/25\/what-senior-military-officials-are-willing-to-put-sailors-at-risk-to-appease-defense-contractors\/","title":{"rendered":"What, Senior Military Officials Are Willing to Put Sailors At Risk to Appease Defense Contractors?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"border-bottom: black 1px solid; border-left: black 1px solid; border-right: black 1px solid; border-top: black 1px solid; float: right; margin: 0px 10px; padding-bottom: 5px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px; padding-top: 5px; text-align: center; width: 240px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/img73.imageshack.us\/img73\/2451\/ricklouiegambling248356no6.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" bordercolor=\"white\" src=\"http:\/\/img73.imageshack.us\/img73\/2451\/ricklouiegambling248356no6.jpg\" width=\"230\" \/><\/a> <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">I&#8217;m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on here!<\/span><\/div>\n<p>The officers evaluating the Lottoral Combat Ship (LCS) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/Article.aspx?id=\/article-xml\/awx_08_16_2012_p0-486738.xml\">suppressed negative testing data<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: blue;\"><p>U.S. Navy emails and other documents suggest that officials muzzled bad test results for the first Littoral Combat Ship (LCS-1) variant, the USS Freedom, at a crucial time in the program\u2019s development, when the service was considering which seaframe to pick for the $30 billion-plus fleet.<\/p>\n<p>Top program officers for the ship and at Naval Sea Systems Command (Navsea) told subordinates to avoid certain language in the test-result reports because of concerns over the downselect decision, the documents show. One naval officer said in an email he would delete the offensive wording of the report.<\/p>\n<p>The Navy acknowledges it clamped down on \u201cwidespread\u201d discussion of \u201cpreliminary\u201d test results, but says it did so to prevent an \u201cunfair comparison\u201d between LCS-1 and the competing LCS-2, the USS Independence, because the second ship had yet to go through the same trials.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yeah, sure.<\/p>\n<p>They were just trying to be fair.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not taking personal checks from these wankers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on here! The officers evaluating the Lottoral Combat Ship (LCS) suppressed negative testing data: U.S. Navy emails and other documents suggest that officials muzzled bad test results for the first Littoral Combat Ship (LCS-1) variant, the USS Freedom, at a crucial time in the program\u2019s development, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1008,1161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-defense-procurement","category-naval"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184038"}],"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=184038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}