Trois jours avant l’annonce des nouvelles dispositions du Pentagone concernant le JSF, \u00e0 la veille du long week-end<\/a> de Ashton Carter et des dirigeants de Lockheed Martin, Winslow Wheeler avait publi\u00e9 un article sur la catastrophe du JSF. Il ne fait aucun doute pour Wheeler<\/a>, l’un des chefs de file des r\u00e9formistes, que le programme JSF est \u00e9videmment une catastrophe.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tLa th\u00e8se de Wheeler est que l’administration Obama va d\u00e9sormais s’employer \u00e0 tenter de camoufler la catastrophe sous divers artifices, de fa\u00e7on \u00e0 \u00e9viter de tomber sous le coup de la loi Nunn-McCurdy qui oblige \u00e0 l’abandon ou \u00e0 la restructuration d’un programme d’armement. Si l’on comprend Wheeler, la seule pr\u00e9occupation de l’\u00e9quipe Obama va \u00eatre de dissimuler<\/strong> autant que possible l’ampleur du d\u00e9sastre, aussi longtemps que possible, sans \u00e9videmment s’int\u00e9resser \u00e0 la question de l’issue de cette tactique. La question centrale que pose Wheeler est celle-ci: Carter aura besoin de complices dans la bureaucratie du Pentagone pour son cover-up<\/em>, et les trouvera-t-il?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tLa texte de Wheeler est du 20 novembre 2009<\/a>, notamment sur le site du Center of Defense Information, o\u00f9 Wheeler expose ce que sera, selon lui, le fameux week-end de consultation entre Carter et LM<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abThis weekend, the Pentagon’s Acquisition Czar, Ashton Carter, will convene a meeting to ponder how to rescue the program. The word is that he is contemplating a plan to accelerate the flight test program – which sounds good until you consider the program can’t even maintain the delayed flight test program it is on now. The plan, nonetheless, will provide cover for moving around contractor engineers and other actions to feign big savings in the program. Carter is also contemplating a downsizing of the F-35’s performance requirements, perhaps in a manner that will be hard for overseers, if any, in Congress to find and\/or in a manner that may complicate the program for the Air Force and further dampen the already tepid enthusiasm for the aircraft in the Navy. As a result of all this, cost growth being predicted by a multi-service team of analysts in the Pentagon, known as the JET, would be mostly wished away. (We know about the Joint Estimating Team’s cost analysis thanks to reporting from Jason Sherman at Inside Defense.)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbNone of this would fix the program in any real sense, but it would pretend that the F-35 program is not going to breach some newly revised congressional reporting requirements for cost overruns (known widely as Nunn-McCurdy). Thus it is hoped the world would remain ignorant of the problems beneath.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbInto this vortex of illusion, Acquisition Czar Carter will have to drag numerous bureaucratic participants, if they are willing. Prominent among them are newly appointed senior officials for cost estimating, program development, and testing. Unwilling to press for any meaningful reform of the F-35 program, Carter apparently seeks the complicity of others. It will be most interesting to observe how everybody behaves.<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tLe v\u00e9ritable b\u00e9mol qu’introduit Wheeler concerne la presse, et, plus sp\u00e9cialement, la presse tr\u00e8s sp\u00e9cialis\u00e9e (des lettres d’information telles Inside the Pentagon<\/em>) et les sites sp\u00e9cialis\u00e9s sur Internet. Par les informations que les uns et les autres d\u00e9voilent, le cover-up<\/em> peut \u00eatre r\u00e9duit \u00e0 n\u00e9ant. Involontairement, Wheeler donne une imm\u00e9diate d\u00e9monstration de la chose. Il note (avec, soulign\u00e9 en gras, la phrase importante pour nous):<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abOn Monday, Lockheed proudly announced to Reuters that its short take-off and vertical landing test jet has finally arrived at the Navy test facility at Patuxent, Maryland to resume the F-35 flight test program, now a few months or a few years behind schedule depending on what baseline you use. But later in the week, the word spread at Lockheed that things didn’t go as well as expected at Patuxent. (The specifics of this are<\/em> sure to break in the news, given the close attention paid by the press<\/em><\/strong>.)<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tCela est \u00e9crit le 20 novembre. Effectivement, le 23 novembre 2009<\/a>, DoDBuzz.com<\/em> diffuse la nouvelle que Wheeler annon\u00e7ait selon des rumeurs, cette fois avec toutes les pr\u00e9cisions voulues sur les ennuis du F-35B et des commentaires de sources au Congr\u00e8s. (Nous en parlions le 24 novembre 2009<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tD\u00e9sormais, le programme JSF est marqu\u00e9 \u00e0 la culotte par des bataillons de journalistes avec leurs sources. Cette machine de communication libre, qui constitue le noyau d’une collaboration entre le segment le moins contraint de la presse officielle et les sites les plus engag\u00e9s et les plus comp\u00e9tents, a elle-m\u00eame d\u00e9busqu\u00e9 la catastrophe dans le programme JSF et m\u00e8ne cette bataille<\/a> depuis la mi-2008. Sur ce point, aucun doute n’est permis: c’est l\u00e0 qu’on trouve l’ennemi principal du programme JSF et des manuvres effectu\u00e9es un peu partout dans le syst\u00e8me de l’am\u00e9ricanisme pour tenter de dissimuler la catastrophe.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \tMis en ligne le 25 novembre 2009 \u00e0 12H28<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Trois jours avant l’annonce des nouvelles dispositions du Pentagone concernant le JSF, \u00e0 la veille du long week-end de Ashton Carter et des dirigeants de Lockheed Martin, Winslow Wheeler avait publi\u00e9 un article sur la catastrophe du JSF. 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