Word: 5a
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ambassador Gavin meantime told a press conference in Mexico City that, with the Mexican government's approval, the U.S. was sending 25 demolition experts to level 30 precariously weakened buildings in the capital. They would arrive in Mexico City in a C-5A transport also carrying five large helicopters equipped to fight fires. An accompanying team of 25 civilian technicians would include experts on disasters and on using heavy mining equipment. One request the Mexicans did make was for giant crane helicopters to help clear some of the ruins, but U.S. experts said they would not operate properly...
Fitzgerald, who exposed cost overruns on the C-5A transport plane in 1969, had been warned he risked arrest if he revealed the names of the contractors in his report. The names were duly omitted, but leaked out later. Among the findings: at Rockwell International, actual labor costs on the B-l bomber were $15 an hour, but the final charge to the Government was nearly $200. Boeing's cruise missile markup was from $14 to nearly $114 an hour...
Lockheed. The big defense contractor flew into trouble as the 1970s began because of development outlays for its Tri-Star jumbojet, which never made money and is now out of production, and vast cost overruns on the giant C-5A military cargo carrier. In 1971 the Senate, by a one-vote majority, approved $250 million in now expired loan guarantees. Last year Chairman Roy Anderson was able to report that booming military business had helped Lockheed achieve record profits of $263 million...
...room last week. Pentagon Whistle Blower A. Ernest Fitzgerald, a management systems deputy for the Air Force, had been called to testify before Iowa Senator Charles Grassley's Subcommittee on Administrative Practice and Procedure. Fitzgerald, fired in 1970 after he disclosed huge cost overruns on the Lockheed C-5A military transport, was restored to his original Pentagon job in 1982 under court order. He complained to the Senate panel that he has been denied access to data needed to perform his duties, a charge that the Air Force denied...
...planes. Since 1981, the number of U.S. "mobile logistics ships" (vessels that carry petroleum, ammunition and other cargo to resupply battle fleets at sea) has increased by exactly one, from 72 to 73. Some 50 new transport planes are on order to supplement the present fleet of 70 C-5A Galaxies and 234 C-141 Star-Lifters. But the new planes will not begin flying for two years...