Pentagon Orders Lame Independent Review Of Totally Awesome $12.9 Billion Aircraft Carrier

[rangerrebew]

Pentagon Orders Lame Independent Review Of Totally Awesome $12.9 Billion Aircraft Carrier
Raphael Orlove
Tuesday 5:07pmFiled to: Defense Blunders
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The USS Gerald Ford gets its innovative island put in back in 2013. Photo Credit: The United States Navy

The upcoming USS Gerald Ford is a $12.9 billion masterclass in neat new tech with electromagnet catapults and super radar and lots of other cool and very necessary things. Who cares if some of these things maybe, uh, don’t work?

That’s the issue at hand for the Pentagon, now ordering an independent review of the supercarrier (the first new class of carriers in more than 40 years) and its entire $42 billion program, as Bloomberg reports. Bloomberg acquired a memo from Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics Frank Kendall to United States Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, and it turns out that Kendall is less than pleased with the super neat and very big USS Gerald Ford. As Bloomberg quotes:

http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/pentagon-orders-lame-independent-review-of-totally-awes-1785957301

[Smokin Joe]

Pentagon Orders Lame Independent Review Of Totally Awesome $12.9 Billion Aircraft Carrier
Raphael Orlove
Tuesday 5:07pmFiled to: Defense Blunders
34.6K
233
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The USS Gerald Ford gets its innovative island put in back in 2013. Photo Credit: The United States Navy

The upcoming USS Gerald Ford is a $12.9 billion masterclass in neat new tech with electromagnet catapults and super radar and lots of other cool and very necessary things. Who cares if some of these things maybe, uh, don’t work?

That’s the issue at hand for the Pentagon, now ordering an independent review of the supercarrier (the first new class of carriers in more than 40 years) and its entire $42 billion program, as Bloomberg reports. Bloomberg acquired a memo from Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics Frank Kendall to United States Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, and it turns out that Kendall is less than pleased with the super neat and very big USS Gerald Ford. As Bloomberg quotes:

http://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/pentagon-orders-lame-independent-review-of-totally-awes-1785957301

Interesting, as were the linked articles in that one. Thanks!