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...Rage. The news sent Deputy Defense Secretary David Packard, the Pentagon's procurement administrator, into a hot rage. He was angered at Grumman for not putting up danger signals earlier, though Evans says that he "outlined" his cost problems to Navy officials as far back as September 1969. Behind closed doors in his E-ring Pentagon office, Packard repeatedly chewed out Navy brass for failing to give him early warnings of Grumman's troubles. Some of the officers present during these sessions later called Packard "unreasonable." One result of the mess is that Vice Admiral Thomas F. Connolly...
...engine. An influential group of Congressmen has urged the Pentagon to scrap plans for any new fighters and concentrate instead on updating McDonnell-Douglas' widely acclaimed F-4 Phantom. At one point last week, reports TIME Pentagon Correspondent John Mulliken, the Navy's command was certain that Packard had decided to scuttle...
More for Less. Packard was then confronted by top Navy officials, including Admiral Elmo R. ("Bud") Zumwalt Jr., Chief of Naval Operations, who is an uncompromising defender of the F14. Zumwalt argued that the new fighter is essential to U.S. sea defense because 1) it is a launching platform for the Navy's air-to-air Phoenix missile, the key to future fleet protection against enemy aircraft, and 2) no other Navy plane will be a match for the Soviets' newest interceptor, the MIG-23 Foxbat. In addition, Navy men point out, advanced models...
...reduce the margin for error by both the Pentagon and its contractors, Packard has devised a procurement plan that follows the "milestone" formula, under which some projects are being developed in coordinated stages. Plans would call for the engine and airframe of a new plane to reach certain "milestones" of development within stated periods of time. Production, the final milestone, would be ordered only after many other testing and prototype stages have been successfully completed, each under a separate and relatively short-term contract. Other plans specifying even more discrete stages of the funding and development of new hardware...
Armed only with the script's Vance Packard sociology and minor motivation, he thrusts at the viewer an organization man without his bowler, his brolly-or his skin. Raised in the blackened sidestreets of Liverpool, Marler, the former Jesuit novice, has created a future by annihilating his past. But his past is overwhelming, an overpowering part of himself...