I noted below a failure of the Free Market Fairy in the national defense sector and here's another one to go with it.
Gates Shakes Up Leadership for F-35
By CHRISTOPHER DREW and THOM SHANKER
Published: February 1, 2010
NY Times
WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said Monday that he was replacing the general in charge of the Pentagon’s largest weapons program — the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter — and withholding $614 million in award fees from the contractor, Lockheed Martin.
Mr. Gates said the program manager on the F-35, Maj. Gen. David Heinz of the Marine Corps, would be replaced by a higher-ranking general whose name would be announced soon.
“A number of key goals and benchmarks were not met,” he said, adding that “the taxpayer should not have to bear the entire burden of getting the J.S.F. program back on track.”
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