TRW was bought out by Northrup Grumman July 1, 2002. Feith was once counsel to them.

Remember, TRW’s contract was a 1 year renewable for 14 years. (The winner of the Pakistan F-16 contract too).

Hey bmaz, why the “nose cone parts assembly” demo during the presser yesterday?

The more I read, the more questions I have…

I mean here are my hmmms…

Warren AFB – Wyoming- Cheney – Northrup Grumman – Feith – AIPAC – Bolton – Taiwan

Bolton is also under suspicion for his ties to Taiwan. Before joining the Bush administration, Bolton was on the payroll of the government of Taiwan, advocating UN membership for the breakaway island nation. Like Bolton’s secret trips to Israel, Britain, and other nations, Donald Keyser, the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs and a colleague of Bolton, made secret trips to Taiwan. He was arrested by the FBI in September 2004 after he was witnessed passing classified documents to Taiwanese agents in Washington.

I was surprising reminded that outside of AIPAC, Taiwan was one of our larger lobbiests in DC.

Now I hope it was a transcribed number…

DSCC serves more than 24,000 military and civilian customers and 10,000 contractors as one of the largest suppliers of weapon systems parts in the world. DSCC buys materiel, monitors inventory levels, maintains technical data, and assures quality conformance of spare parts, which vary from such common items as vehicle parts and accessories to complex mechanical and electronic repair parts for weapon systems.

Link here:

http://www.globalsecurity.org/…..afps03.htm

ICBM Systems Program Office

Contractor for SPO is TRW. More here:

http://www.globalsecurity.org/…..bm-spo.htm

Since the parts seem to originate at Warren AFB in Wyoming
I would want to know if the fuses were new or from decommissioned missiles. I would think decommissioned parts would be harder to track.

Only two years later, the new Minuteman replaced the Atlas, and on July 1, 1963, the 90th Strategic Missile Wing was activated. During the early 1970s, the SAC ICBM Force Modernization Program began replacing Minuteman I with Minuteman III missiles. In November 1973, the 400th Strategic Missile Squadron marked the transition by becoming the first all Minuteman III squadron at Warren. The 90th Strategic Missile Wing was selected to base the Peacekeeper missiles in 1975. Warren was home to the Peacekeeper missiles missile from 1986 to 2005, when deactivation was completed. When the LGM-118A Peacekeeper was in service they were stationed here. The last were withdrawn from service in September of 2005 when the 400th Missile Squadron deactivated. Warren missile fields currently maintain 150 Minuteman III missiles.

During a period of Air Force reorganization in the early 1990s, Warren transitioned from the deactivating SAC to newly-established Air Combat Command, and finally, on July 1, 1993 to the Air Force Space Command. This realignment was designed to take advantage of the similarities between missile launch and space launch operations. The 90th Strategic Missile Wing was also renamed the 90th Missile Wing. The wing became the 90th Space Wing on October 1, 1997.

The 2005 Base Realignment and Closure commission (BRAC) did not recommend making any significant change to the base’s current operations. [3]

Just thinking out loud.

And to answer your question…Yep!

Here’s yet another link from 2005 on DLA privatization:

A recent review of the top weapons system supply chain contractors with whom DLA has established strategic supplier alliances, compared to contractors from whom the military services buy DLRs, demonstrates the effectiveness of this decision. Over 61 percent of the dollars spent showed at least one overlapping military service; 50 percent showed at least two overlapping military services; 18 percent had at least three, and 4 percent overlapped all four services.

Link here:

http://www.military-logistics-…..DocID=2202

Whatever happened to ACCOUNTABILITY? What ever happened to the completion of all of Phase II of the SSCI?

What a country what a justice system what oversight? Clinton nailed for lying about a blowjob. The folks who are responsible for an INTELLIGENCE SNOWJOB are still running free. The results of that INTELLIGENCE SNOWJOB has been hundreds of thousands of deaths and injuries and millions of Iraqi people displaced.

Call me a peasant call me ignorant I just do not get it when our congress considers holding a President accountable for lying about a bj and then congress does not hold those responsible for the Intelligence snowjob ACCOUNTABLE. It seems this would be the very least they could do for those who have needlessly lost family members in an unnecessary and immoral war. The very least!.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/…..2873t.pdf.

Just an interesting read for anyone who might be interested in our DLA inventory “best practices” concerns…

I’m still trying to track down the contracts.

Here is a link to the training manual for DLA regarding inventory management system use and some quick information:

Access to Information About Items
With LINK, you can get catalog information about Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), General Service Administration (GSA) and Services managed material such as name, unit of issue, unit price, and description. LINK also gives you visibility of excess, wholesale, and retail assets. Items are identified by either a National Stock Number (NSN) or National Item Identification Number (NIIN). Inventory Control Points (ICPs) in the military services, DLA, GSA, and other Federal agencies catalog items.
The ICPs send information about new items to the Defense Logistics Information Service (DLIS) located in Battle Creek, MI. DLIS catalogues new material, then assigns an NSN to the new item. The NSN identifies
the item through its life cycle. The NSN consists of two parts:
•
Federal Supply Classification – first four digits. Identifies the group and class to which the item

Here is the document:

http://www.dlis.dla.mil/PDFs/linkguide.PDF

I did a “stint” with one of the largest logistics companies in the US a long time ago. So, my background is dated. Still, in looking at the “practices” it seems surprising that it was not “picked up” on, especially after the GAO “hounded” DLA on their “best practices” and noted in three reports (possibly more – I’m still researching) that the privatized weapons parts inventory management needed more security and was identified several times during the Clinton Administration as a potential security breech area (one of the top 25 security breech concerns).

Aviation Supplies

DLA’s schedule contained 1 prime vendor and 14 contracting initiatives for
aviation supplies.
DLA is designing the prime vendor program to provide
consumable items to maintenance depots that repair engines and weapon
systems. The schedule identified six potential repair depots to use this
program but did not provide any implementation dates. Also, the schedule
did not include milestones for a concept test and evaluation phase,
indicate the extent to which the prime vendor would actually be used,
identify a planned activation date for applicable locations, or project a
date when the prime vendor would be in all locations.
The 14 contracting initiatives include a combination of corporate,
long-term, and direct delivery contracts for a variety of aviation parts, such as fasteners, engine parts, and cleaning compounds. The schedule
provided actual or planned contract award dates for most of the
initiatives.
GAO/NSIAD-98-218 Inventory Management

Batteries

The schedule contained three contracting initiatives for batteries. These
programs include long-term and direct delivery contracts. The schedule
information for these initiatives consisted of the year that each contract
was awarded and other contract information…

(my bold)

The point:

As of 2001, DLA had contracted out as direct delivery their aviation battery inventory management. How on earth could fuses get shipped if batteries were ordered? A totally separate, direct delivery supplier was supplying batteries. Additionally, a separate prime vendor program supplier was contracted by 2001 for weapons systems. I do not think this was a matter of “close” inventory numbers.