Posted on 02/17/2017 2:41:31 PM PST by RoosterRedux
Days before taking office, President-elect Donald Trump made two surprise calls to the Air Force general managing the Pentagon’s largest weapons program, the Lockheed Martin F-35 jet.
Listening in on one of those calls was Dennis Muilenburg — the CEO of Lockheed’s chief rival, Boeing.
Trump, who has repeatedly criticized the $379 billion F-35 program as “out of control,” made the highly unusual calls to Lt. Gen. Chris Bogdan on Jan. 9 and Jan. 17. Muilenburg, whose company makes a fighter jet Trump has suggested might be an alternative to the F-35, was in Trump’s New York office for a meeting during the second call. He appeared caught off-guard but was able to listen in on the call, according to two people familiar with the calls, who asked to remain anonymous discussing sensitive information.
“I would consider the calls to be very straightforward. He asked a lot of very, very, very good questions because he was in the learning mode,” Bogdan said of Trump. Speaking to reporters Thursday after a congressional hearing on the F-35, Bogdan said that Muilenburg’s listening to the call “was not inappropriate. The things I talked about in front of Mr. Muilenburg were clearly publicly releasable information. I understand the rules.”
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Triumph Aerostructures - Vought Aircraft Division - Red Oak
Triumph Aerostructures – Vought Aircraft Division – Grand Prairie (Marshall Street)
Triumph Aerostructures – Vought Aircraft Division – Hawthorne
Triumph Aerostructures – Vought Aircraft Division – Milledgeville
Triumph Aerostructures – Vought Aircraft Division – Nashville
Triumph Aerostructures – Vought Aircraft Division – Stuart
Triumph Aerostructures – Vought Aircraft Division – Tulsa
Vought is a Boeing sub on the 787.
There are so many FReepers who know so much about any topic. I can almost always count on getting my questions answered. Thanks to both of you, I’ve learned some new trivia to fill in empty spots in my head.
I retired in 2012 after working for Hexcel (structural honeycomb for aviation) more than 20 years. I think I’ve made or inspected something for most all of these companies and quite a few more including some stuff for the space shuttle. I hope nothing I made ever fell off on one of your hard landings! :o(
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