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Your humble opinion is only about half right. The original goals were
achievable. I've been lead Test Engineer in the Comanche PMO since 1989. The original program as contracted in 1991 was achievable in cost, schedule, and performance. In 1992 our funding was slashed. We then spent 10 years just keeping things going and kicking the can down the road, fooling ourselves we were making progress. We restructured the program every two years from 1992 through 2000. In 2002 our PM went to the Army and said, "fund us properly or kill us." We finally got the funding we needed to do it right. There were some problem areas, but I'm convinced the program that was just cancelled was achievable. Cost and schedule problems had nothing to do with the cancellation. You should see how fast the place is emptying out..... Dan Hollenbaugh TruthSeeker wrote in message . .. It's a damn shame they set unrealistic cost, schedule and performance goals for that thing starting from Day #1. Wanna cause endless problems, be unrealistic in your goals and spend the next 20 years trying to meet them. There are other things too, but that IHMO was the root of the problem. |
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