{"id":191969,"date":"2009-05-30T05:52:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-30T10:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/05\/30\/damn-this-crap-never-dies-does-it\/"},"modified":"2009-05-30T05:52:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-30T10:52:00","slug":"damn-this-crap-never-dies-does-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/05\/30\/damn-this-crap-never-dies-does-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Damn!  This Crap Never Dies, Does It?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2 of the significant cancellations of the budget proposed by SecDef Gates were the USAF&#8217;s Transformational Satellite (TSAT), and the Army&#8217;s Future Combat System (FCS), but like the slasher flick villain, they&#8217;re back.<\/p>\n<p>The USAF is now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aviationweek.com\/aw\/blogs\/defense\/index.jsp?plckController=Blog&amp;plckScript=blogScript&amp;plckElementId=blogDest&amp;plckBlogPage=BlogViewPost&amp;plckPostId=Blog%3A27ec4a53-dcc8-42d0-bd3a-01329aef79a7Post%3Aced6b870-a686-4c4d-8d96-bfdb783cf5a2\">looking for funding of a &#8220;technology demonstrator&#8221; which would mirror TSAT&#8217;s capabilities<\/a>, with an obvious eye towards reviving the program, and Army Chief of Staff General George Casey is saying that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dodbuzz.com\/2009\/05\/19\/fcs-not-terminated-casey\/\">the FCS has not been killed<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.defensetech.org\/archives\/004854.html\">prime contractor Boeing still touting fictitious milestones being passed<\/a>, and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601110&amp;sid=aoqbk.253_Ns\">senior acquisition officer saying that it would be split into 3 parts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>So, we&#8217;ll services coming after this again, and again, even though the gear and tech from the FCS that was supposed to enter service in 2011 <a href=\"http:\/\/defensenews.com\/story.php?i=4102531&amp;c=AME&amp;s=LAN\">has now been delayed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Iron Triangle at its finest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2 of the significant cancellations of the budget proposed by SecDef Gates were the USAF&#8217;s Transformational Satellite (TSAT), and the Army&#8217;s Future Combat System (FCS), but like the slasher flick villain, they&#8217;re back. The USAF is now looking for funding of a &#8220;technology demonstrator&#8221; which would mirror TSAT&#8217;s capabilities, with an obvious eye towards reviving &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1038,1008],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-defense-procurement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191969"}],"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=191969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}