[stuartcr]

“...the military determined these companies were the only ones capable of supplying the vehicles fast enough to meet the demands of deployed troops...Force Protection failed to meet all delivery schedules, according to the report, and acquisition officials knew there were other manufacturers that might have supplied some of the vehicles in a more timely fashion...”

How do these things happen, without anyone getting in trouble?

[Weeedley]

The C-in-C failed to put the nation on a war footing thats why we are not getting material to the troops. In WWII we built 88,000 armored vehicles and 2,300,000 military trucks with half the population and 15,000,000 men under arms and out of the work force.

Moving all our manufacturing capacity to china, mexico etc etc dont help either.

[Shermy]

Because the punishment is forced retirement,

which is not much punishment at all,

because the forced pentagon retiree then takes a cushy and lucrative job,

with the very company he awarded the contract before,

it’s called a payoff on the back end.

[CharlesWayneCT]

Well, the companies themselves provided SOME of the vehicles in a more timely fashion.

The article isn’t specific enough, but it could be that they delivered say 3000 of the 4000 vehicles on time, while another company might have been able to deliver 1000 on time.

So at a greater expense, you could have split the contract I guess, and had two types of armor on vehicles, two contractors to manage, and two sources of headaches.