Defense News<\/a> rapporte, le 11 septembre, quelques observations sur ce t\u00e9moignage :<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00abAccording to Walker, the Army hired security guards through sole-source contracts at 46 of 57 Army installations avoiding competitive bidding even though it recognized it was paying 25 percent more when failing to require bidding, he said.<\/em> ()<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbWalker said contractors and the military services tend to overpromise and underdeliver when it comes to building weapons. The final product too often can’t do all that was promised, is delivered months or years late and is extremely over budget. Contractors are at fault when they lowball costs and promise capabilities they can’t deliver, Walker said.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbThe services are at fault because they often fail to separate what they want from what they need and can afford. Walker avoided naming specific programs, but in the past has said the Air Force is unable to make a sound business case for buying the F-22 fighter, a plane designed to fight the Soviet Union of the 1970s and 1980s. <\/em>[ Walker] said only that the F-22 is a case study that illustrates many of the contracting woes that beset the Defense Department.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbOne that infuriated several subcommittee members is the Pentagon’s practice of paying award fees and other financial incentives to contractors despite dismal performance.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbFor example, the Army paid Boeing and Sikorsky nearly $203 million in award fees on the Comanche helicopter program. Then, after spending 21 years and $7 billion without producing a workable helicopter, the Army canceled the program in 2004. The Air Force paid Lockheed Martin almost $850 million in award fees for the F-22, a stealth fighter that has taken two decades to build, has been plagued with problems and cost $65 billion at least $3.5 billion in cost overruns.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\u00bbTo some extent, production delays and cost overruns can be blamed on the military, which often changes requirements, disrupting contractor work and adding cost, Walker said.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\tMis en ligne le 14 septembre 2006 \u00e0 08H22<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
David Walker, le directeur du Government Accountability Office (GAO, \u00e9quivalent de la Cour des Comptes) a donn\u00e9 les r\u00e9sultats d’une enqu\u00eate de ses services sur les conditions dans lesquelles les r\u00e8gles de concurrence sont respect\u00e9es au sein du d\u00e9partement de la d\u00e9fense (DoD, ou Pentagone). A part des cas extr\u00eames repr\u00e9sentant largement moins de 0,1%… <\/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":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4139,4248,4544,3194],"class_list":["post-67994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bloc-notes","tag-concurrence","tag-gao","tag-gaspillage","tag-pentagone"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67994","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=67994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}