Originally Posted by
George K Lee
Ha. May explain this Whine Spectator 91-pointer....
The Air Force seems to have worse relations with its contractors than any other service. Hardly a week passes in which some senior official doesn't question the performance and priorities of top contractors.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/lorenth.../#6fbd443fe3a8
Mean ol' air force. Expects you to deliver what you contracted to deliver.
There are two ways to approach the job of oversight:
1. You can take an adversarial approach and look for ways to hammer the contractor.
2. You can take a team member approach and look for ways to develop and implement solutions.
USAF tends toward the first approach. They took the first approach on C-17 for the first several years of that program's life. But eventually they switched to the second approach. Shockingly, the program flourished, costs went down, performance went up, and the C-17 become a "model acquisition program" after that switch.