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2021-06-22 Science & Technology
US Navy's new $166B submarine fleet is hobbled by faulty parts wearing out DECADES earlier than expected
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Posted by Skidmark 2021-06-22 00:12|| || Front Page|| [336085 views ]  Top

#1 Advice:

Order at least a gross of these,
lest the submarine fleet goes,
'Glub, glub'.

Posted by Punky Splashing3445 2021-06-22 02:53||   2021-06-22 02:53|| Front Page Top

#2 Navy procurement has been a scandal since the Greatest Generation retired (who remembered why you did it right and didn't bleed on the next technology).
Posted by Procopius2k 2021-06-22 07:38||   2021-06-22 07:38|| Front Page Top

#3 Procopius, suggested rewrite: Navy has been a scandal...
Posted by Gerthudion Whomoper3485 2021-06-22 08:43||   2021-06-22 08:43|| Front Page Top

#4 


Did a ITSEC consulting gig at the Rotten-Grotten GD Electric Boat yard back in the later 90's. Everything I saw and heard while there, proved to me they had total traceability of all parts from creation to installation and its lifecycle afterwards.

Note: These boats are already approaching 20+ year lifecycle. Couple that with their missions, number of dives and combat training simulations. Yes Parts will fail given the heavy and strenuously use.

But as long nothing fails in the "Forest" and there is still a Bubble, it can be fixed.


Posted by NN2N1 2021-06-22 08:56||   2021-06-22 08:56|| Front Page Top

#5 The entire DoD procurement operation has been a scandal since at least the 60s.
Posted by DarthVader 2021-06-22 10:18||   2021-06-22 10:18|| Front Page Top

#6 /\ The 1960's until today probably heralds the 'hay day', but the dynamic pre-dates the 1960's a bit:

Most of the equines sent to South Africa came from the United States. From October 1899 to June 1902, 109,878 horses and 81,524 mules were shipped from New Orleans in 65 different British steamships making 166 voyages at an average cost of US$597,978 per month for each of the 32 months of the war. It was one of the largest global transports of animals in history.

Link
Posted by Besoeker 2021-06-22 10:24||   2021-06-22 10:24|| Front Page Top

#7 The more they try to "reform" the more bureaucratically sceloteric it gets.
Posted by magpie 2021-06-22 12:33||   2021-06-22 12:33|| Front Page Top

#8 ^--- By Design.
Posted by CrazyFool 2021-06-22 18:52||   2021-06-22 18:52|| Front Page Top

#9 Running out of Baking Soda are they?
Posted by CrazyFool 2021-06-22 19:49||   2021-06-22 19:49|| Front Page Top

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