Word: testers
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Following the release of that report by the Pentagon's top tester last November, the Marines boasted that an increasing number of V-22s were able to fly. "The Marine Corps wants the airplane to be low maintenance and high reliability, and we're driving the program office to make that happen," Brig. Gen. James F. Amos, a top Marine pilot, said in the wake of the critical report's release. Now those numbers, too, are suspect - although Amos's comment shows that the pressure Leberman must have felt to boost the V-22's readiness rate was not imaginary...
...time is ripe for Cheney to take action: Last April, an Osprey crashed in Arizona and killed 19 Marines (the corps ultimately blamed the tragedy on its dead pilots). Two weeks ago, Phil Coyle, the Pentagon's top weapons-tester, said the Osprey is "more difficult and costly" to keep flying than the 30-year old helicopters it is designed to replace. In fact, it breaks down twice as often. More critically, it's not ready for military missions: It hasn't been approved for the vigorous maneuvers required in combat and lacks the required gun, and Marines...
...rocket as it takes place. All that is valuable intelligence--and much, if not all of it, would be denied to the U.S. if a rogue state decided to strike. Such advantages "place significant limitations" on the value of the test, says Philip Coyle, the Pentagon's chief weapons tester...
...outsiders have doubts. Last fall a blue-ribbon panel concluded there is "unusual fragmentation and confusion" about who is running the program. After January's miss, the Pentagon's top weapons tester said the Administration has put "undue pressure" on the Pentagon to "meet an artificial decision point." Even the Pentagon's documents show that a decision to build the defense system will be made only when 45% of the proposed hardware has been shown to work. In fact, there is concern that the new, more powerful booster--which will shake the kill vehicle 10 times as hard...
...said Ping, "they need to test [the new glues] in the R&D facility and then in the [manufacturing] plants." In all, the intellectual assembly line will move from CEO to management consultant to purchasing analyst to materials buyer to development tester to factory overseer before the new process for gluing the label to the bottle is complete. It is exceedingly unlikely that any of the 423-million-gallon daily drinkers will notice a thing...