15 mars<\/a> sur les circonstances de l’affrontement dans cette pol\u00e9mique \u00e0 l’int\u00e9rieur de la grande pol\u00e9mique du JSF.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\tLes extraits ci-dessous montrent que nous n’aurons pas seulement le Congr\u00e8s versus<\/em> le Pentagone et le Pentagone versus<\/em> le MoD britannique, mais aussi un Congr\u00e8s d\u00e9chir\u00e9, et selon des positions qui opposeront des parlementaires \u00e0 l’int\u00e9rieur du m\u00eame parti. (Encore la Chambre des Repr\u00e9sentants, avec ses activistes protectionnistes, n’est-elle pas entr\u00e9e en piste) <\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00ab U.S. Sen. John Warner is not about to surrender in what is becoming the second Great Engine War. The Senate Armed Services Committee chairman is determined there will be two engine suppliers for the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF), after the U.S. Defense Department suddenly decided last fall that it wanted only one.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t(…)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\t\u00bb Isn’t it wise to have two engine builders? Warner asked during the two days of hearings, which he ordered to review the Defense Department’s decision to proceed with only one. Over the 30-year life of the planes, the cost to buy and maintain thousands of engines could be as much as $100 billion, he said. Can those costs be kept under control with only one manufacturer? Warner asked.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bb The new engine war pits Warner, R-Va., against Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn. It also pits long-term costs against short-term savings, and the U.S. Defense Department against the British Ministry of Defence.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bb While Warner worried about high costs in the future, Lieberman said canceling the GE-Rolls contract could save the military $1.8 billion immediately. That money could be spent on a lot of other things, he said Competition can sometimes be good, but in a resource-constrained environment, maybe the best thing we can do is go with a single contractor and count on close management by the Pentagon to keep costs from rising, he said.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t(…)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\t\u00bb Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., who counts GE employees among his constituents, sided with Warner. By canceling the GE contract to save $1.8 billion now, the military will forfeit savings from competition that some estimate to be eight to 10 times that much, Kennedy said. Besides, canceling the GE contract could mean job losses at GE’s Lynn, Mass., fighter engine plant, Kennedy noted.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bb Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., sided with Lieberman. Inhofe argued that because of substantial improvements in fighter engine reliability since the 1980s, we can do without a second JSF engine maker. I don’t see the risk at all, he said.<\/em> \u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tMis en ligne le 15 mars 2006 \u00e0 09H34<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Les auditions de ces derniers jours, au S\u00e9nat US, \u00e0 propos de diverses questions li\u00e9es au programme JSF, ont montr\u00e9 qu’une guerre des moteurs a d’ores et d\u00e9j\u00e0 commenc\u00e9. Le th\u00e8me est d\u00e9sormais connu : la d\u00e9cision du Pentagone de liquider le moteur Rolls\/GE concurrent du moteur Pratt & Whitney est-elle justifi\u00e9e ? Defense News… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3285,250,4883,4962,3470],"class_list":["post-67356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-congres","tag-jsf","tag-lieberman","tag-rolls","tag-warner"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}