"Trump wants to cancel Air Force One order from Boeing"
by Chris Isidore, Jon Ostrower and Rene Marsh @CNNMoney December 6, 2016: 2:50 PM ET
http://money.cnn.com/2016/12/06/news/companies/trump-air-force-one-boeing/
"Trump on Boeing's Air Force One contract: 'Cancel order!'"
Tue Dec 6, 2016 | 3:24pm EST
By Andrea Shalal and Amy Tennery - WASHINGTON/NEW YORK U.S.
"President-elect Donald Trump urged the government on Tuesday to cancel an order with Boeing Co for a revamped Air Force One - one of the most prominent symbols of the U.S. presidency - saying costs were out of control."
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-airplane-idUSKBN13V1S5
Tweety Twump FINALLY looks at THE best target to reduce budgets, cut costs, and save money for his infrastructure programs: waste in Government, acquisition / programs! FINALLY!
He tweeted about a BOEING cost overrun, of course!
Tweety pointed out the $4Billion Boeing cost for the new Air Force 1. Of course Twump did not get the FACTs. The planes are about ~$150 million each, and there is more than one. Nevertheless, I hope Twump knows how to cut the unnecessary requirements.
Twump, pleasestop your fire, ready, aim tweets.
Tweety is right saying that $4B for that program is too much, but Tweety is wrong thinking it is Boeing that is making the money. They have to comply with so many social programs and other non-program related requirements that Boeing probably only makes about 12% with about 100% of the price being a cost buried in overhead as compliance with the regulations.
Government Federal Acquisition Regulations often DOUBLE costs of Government contracts. Cut those regulations and we can save that extra 100%.
Go read about "procurement policy":
"Office of Federal Procurement Policy"
https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/procurement_default
Acquisition reform continues to fail because no one cuts the regulations passed in Congress. No one has focused on fixing processes. No one has had the guts to cut duplication either.
"Lessons from a long history of acquisition reform"
By Laura H. Baldwin and Cynthia R. Cook - 07/16/15 02:30 PM EDT
ALSO, there is an "extra" service called the Defense Contract Management Agency, DCMA for short, which could do ALL Government purchasing, including all the things the General Services Administration buys.
In fact every Government Agency has what I consider a duplicate buying service we do not need. Google "government contracting professional organizations" and you get almost 23 MILLION hits!
Change the acquisition regulations for how programs are run and how contracts are written so DoD can become more effective and efficient. UNTIE the hands of smart people!
If the Twump team analyzes and improves PROCESSES they will carry the notion of reducing waste "across the goal line."
A KEY is processes. Integrate key processes and reduce personnel needs where responsibilities are duplicated. Overlap between military departments, unnecessary duplication is a huge source of waste.
I found a paper that can help: "The Synergy of Integrating Common Processes", © by Frank H. Malsbury
I can show you what to integrate several overlapping Contracting processes today!
After losing $125 BILLION do we really want to give DoD MORE money / tax dollars to lose? DoD Contracts can avoid these losses if allowed to do good business deals! DoD Contracts personnel are smart, but their hands are tied by too many regulations and bureaucracies.
Fix the Federal Acquisition Regulation with real reforms, targeting at least ~$50 BILLION, which is less than 10% of the DoD 2017 budget, to pay for Tweety Twump's infrastructure program. In 10 years that will be more than $500 BILLION!. More!
DoD has too much funding, not too little. If we give DoD a smaller budget they will make it work IF POLITICIANS (Pork Barrel) and rules makers / lobbyists / Congress / courts / "leaders" and ALL bureaucracies STAY AWAY!
