Saluons d’abord la confirmation du retour complet et en pleine verve de Bill Sweetman, qui a retrouv\u00e9 sa place d’observateur incisif, ironique et bien inform\u00e9 du programme JSF, qu’on lui avait un temps interdit<\/a> de tenir Ce qui le conduit \u00e0 observer et \u00e0 commenter, le 19 novembre 2010<\/a>, sur Ares<\/em>, la tr\u00e8s mauvaise humeur du secr\u00e9taire \u00e0 la d\u00e9fense Robert Gates devant les derni\u00e8res nouvelles du JSF<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tGates, jusqu’ici d\u00e9fenseur du JSF par sens du devoir et information approximative, commence \u00e0 se sentir frustr\u00e9, ce qui conduit Sweetman \u00e0 son tour \u00e0 observer que Lockheed Martin et le JSF ont gravement transgress\u00e9 le 11\u00e8me et essentiel Commandement de toute bonne bureaucratie : Thou shalt not make the boss look bad<\/em> (ou encore, \u00e0 notre sauce : Tu ne feras jamais en sorte que le grand patron ait l’air ridicule).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tExtraits principaux de cette courte note de Sweetman <\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00abDefense Secretary Robert Gates’ spokesman Geoff Morrell says his boss is frustrated by the bad news emerging from VAdm Dave Venlet’s review of the Joint Strike Fighter program. While no decisions are expected out of Monday’s Defense Acquisition Board meeting, Morrell says, any decisions will be made by the secretary himself, and likely as a part of the 2012 budget review.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbPrevious reviews have not fully illuminated the issues of the program, Morrell says, and Venlet appointed in May after Gates fired the previous JSF Program Office director, Marine Maj Gen Mike Heinz has found additional issues that are of concern, including the fact that earlier reviews understated the amount of software that remains unwritten.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbIt’s hard not to think about the horrible tale of the General Dynamics\/McDonnell Douglas A-12. In that case, it was then-defense secretary Dick Cheney who discovered the program was in bigger trouble than he’d been told.<\/em> <\/p>\n<\/p>\n \t\u00bbThis is now the second such revelation for Gates. He fired the Air Force’s top leaders in 2008 because they opposed canceling the F-22, and terminated the program the following year, after getting advice that all was going well with JSF<\/em>\u00bb<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tLe pr\u00e9c\u00e9dent agit\u00e9 par Sweetman est horrible, celui de l’abandon brutal du chasseur de p\u00e9n\u00e9tration \u00e0 technologie furtive General Dynamics (GD) A-12 en janvier 1991, sur ordre furieux du secr\u00e9taire \u00e0 la d\u00e9fense d’alors Dick Cheney (notamment \u00e0 la suite d’une visite des usines de GD lorsque Cheney d\u00e9couvrit que ce qui \u00e9tait pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 comme le prototype du A-12 \u00e9tait une maquette en bois). On trouvera des indications utiles sur cette affaire dans un de nos textes, le 22 juillet 2005<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \tSweetman suppose aimablement que Gates n’ira pas jusque l\u00e0 (l’abandon furieux du JSF), mais l’ambiance est d\u00e9sormais fermement install\u00e9e A savoir que, d\u00e9sormais toujours, le Pentagone est en position d’affrontement frontal avec Lockheed Martin, avec le JSF au milieu, entre le marteau et l’enclume plut\u00f4t qu’entre la poire et le fromage. Il en restera ce qu’il en restera, du JSF, et puis, sait-on jamais<\/p>\n<\/p>\n \n dedefensa.org<\/em><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Gates commence \u00e0 en avoir marre du JSF Saluons d’abord la confirmation du retour complet et en pleine verve de Bill Sweetman, qui a retrouv\u00e9 sa place d’observateur incisif, ironique et bien inform\u00e9 du programme JSF, qu’on lui avait un temps interdit de tenir Ce qui le conduit \u00e0 observer et \u00e0 commenter, le 19… <\/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":[14],"tags":[4515,7770,9748,3984,250,6769],"class_list":["post-72482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ouverture-libre","tag-a-12","tag-abandon","tag-frustration","tag-gates","tag-jsf","tag-sweetman"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72482","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=72482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.dedefensa.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}