{"id":191558,"date":"2009-07-26T05:34:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-26T10:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/07\/26\/seriously-cancel-the-jassm\/"},"modified":"2009-07-26T05:34:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-26T10:34:00","slug":"seriously-cancel-the-jassm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/07\/26\/seriously-cancel-the-jassm\/","title":{"rendered":"Seriously, Cancel the JASSM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seriously, this thing has always underperformed tests, and now the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/publication\/awst\/loggedin\/AvnowStoryDisplay.do?fromChannel=awst&amp;pubKey=awst&amp;channel=awst&amp;issueDate=2009-07-27&amp;story=xml\/awst_xml\/2009\/07\/27\/AW_07_27_2009_p32-156853.xml\">lot 6 acceptance tests for the Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM) have been deferred<\/a>. (<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">paid subscription required<\/span>)<\/p>\n<p>This thing has never performed as reliably as the specs require, and cancellation for cause would be a good way to kick a defense contractor in the teeth for delivering crap, and then expecting the taxpayer to fund the fixes.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes, you have to do stuff like this prevent this sort of behavior from becoming endemic in the defense procurement process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seriously, this thing has always underperformed tests, and now the lot 6 acceptance tests for the Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM) have been deferred. (paid subscription required) This thing has never performed as reliably as the specs require, and cancellation for cause would be a good way to kick a defense contractor in the teeth &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1008,1180,1025],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-defense-procurement","category-missiles","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191558"}],"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=191558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}