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Secrets scientist allegedly tried to provide Israel related to early warning defense systems

Link to original:  http://blog.taragana.com/law/2009/10/22/secrets-scientist-allegedly-tried-to-provide-israel-related-to-early-warning-defense-systems-15040/

By AP

October 22nd, 2009

Scientist worked on early warning defense systems

WASHINGTON — A former government scientist arrested earlier this week tried to provide Israel with classified information on satellites and early warning defense systems, says a grand jury indictment.

The grand jury indictment follows Monday’s arrest of Stewart D. Nozette, who spent 16 years doing sensitive defense work for the Energy Department, the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

The information Nozette allegedly tried to provide Israel in an FBI sting operation dealt with “satellites, early warning systems, means of defense or retaliation against large-scale attack, communications intelligence information and major elements of defense strategy,” said the indictment, which did not elaborate.

Earlier this week, a former colleague said that Nozette was primarily a defense technologist who had worked on the Reagan-era Star Wars missile shield effort formally named the Strategic Defense Initiative.

The former colleague, Stanford University professor Scott Hubbard, said Nozette worked on the Star Wars project at the Energy Department’s Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. According to the indictment, Nozette worked there from 1990 to 1999.

One aspect of Nozette’s work on the Strategic Defense Initiative involved a project called Timber Wind, an effort to develop a rocket engine powered by a nuclear reactor, said Steven Aftergood, director of the Project on Government Secrecy at the Federation of American Scientists.

“On a number of occasions I asked Dr. Nozette about the program, but he was always quite scrupulous about rebuffing my inquiries,” Aftergood wrote on his group’s Web site. “Timber Wind was canceled shortly after it became public, and other nuclear rocket initiatives likewise faded away in the 1990s, as the effort to develop nuclear rocketry for military or civilian applications surged and then collapsed.”

At the Energy Department, Nozette had a “Q” clearance, which is equivalent to the Pentagon’s Top Secret clearance.

Nozette, who received a Ph.D. in planetary sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1983, faces a court appearance next Thursday before a federal magistrate. He is jailed without bond.

Neither a criminal complaint filed earlier this week against Nozette nor the indictment allege that the government of Israel or anyone acting on its behalf violated U.S. law. The grand jury indictment alleging two counts of attempted espionage was handed up Wednesday.

On the Net:

Federation of American Scientists:

www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2009/10/nozette.html

Seattle Area UBS Client Pleads Guilty to Filing a False Tax Return

 
Department of Justice
Office of Public Affairs
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Monday, October 5, 2009
Seattle Area UBS Client Pleads Guilty to Filing a False Tax Return
Retired Sales Manager for Boeing

WASHINGTON – Roberto Cittadini of Bellevue, Wash., pleaded guilty today to filing a false tax return, the Justice Department and Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced. Cittadini appeared today before Magistrate Judge Mary Alice Theiler in Seattle and accepted responsibility for concealing nearly $2 million in Swiss bank accounts. According to court documents and statements made in court, Cittadini, a retired sales manager for Boeing, failed to report income from bank accounts under his control at UBS AG in Switzerland on his individual income tax returns from 2001 through 2003. Additionally, Cittadini failed to file a Report of Foreign Bank and Financial Accounts (F-BAR) for each of these years.
According to court documents and statements made in court, Cittadini initially opened an account with UBS in the early 1990s in his own name. In approximately 2001, Swiss banker Hansruedi Schumaker, who was indicted in August 2009 for conspiring to defraud the United States, assisted Cittadini in transferring the assets from his UBS account to an account held in the name Mataropa Finance Limited, a nominee Hong Kong corporation. Cittadini transferred his assets to the Hong Kong entity to evade U.S. reporting and withholding requirements. Additionally, Swiss lawyer Matthias W. Rickenbach, who also was indicted in August 2009, acted as the director of the Hong Kong nominee corporation. From 2001 through 2003, Cittadini held as much as $1.86 million in assets in the Mataropa Finance Limited account at UBS in Switzerland.
Magistrate Judge Theiler scheduled sentencing for Jan. 8, 2010. Cittadini faces a maximum sentence of three years in prison and a maximum fine of $250,000. Additionally, Cittadini agreed to pay a civil F-BAR penalty based on 50 percent of the highest account balance from 2001 to 2007.
"Today’s guilty plea in Washington state follows guilty pleas in New Jersey, California and Florida," said John A DiCicco, Acting Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department’s Tax Division. "Individuals all over the country who are hiding income and assets in offshore accounts would be well-advised to promptly come in and come clean before the government learns about their accounts through other channels."
"This is a time of reckoning for those who thought they had found a safe haven for cheating," said United States Attorney Jenny A. Durkan. "People who avoid paying their fair share hurt all of us who follow the law and conscientiously pay our taxes."
"The IRS continues its pursuit of those hiding their income and assets in offshore accounts," said IRS Chief Criminal Investigation, Eileen Mayer. "People must meet their filing requirements and pay the taxes they owe, or they face potential criminal prosecution. We encourage people who have been hiding money offshore to come forward by Oct. 15 to take advantage of the special provisions in our voluntary disclosure effort."
In February 2009, UBS entered into a deferred prosecution agreement in which the bank admitted to helping U.S. taxpayers hide accounts from the IRS. As part of their agreement, UBS provided the United States government with the identities of, and account information for, certain U.S. customers of UBS’s cross-border business.
In June 2009, UBS client Steven Michael Rubinstein, a Boca Raton, Fla., accountant, pleaded guilty to filing a false tax return. In April 2009, another UBS client, Robert Moran, a Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., yacht broker, pleaded guilty to filing a false tax return. In July 2009, UBS client Jeffrey Chernick, of Stanfordville, N.Y., pleaded guilty to filing a false tax return. In August 2009, UBS client John McCarthy, a resident of Malibu, Calif., agreed to plead guilty to failing to report his ownership of and interest in a foreign financial account. In September 2009, UBS client Juergenn Homann of Saddle River, N.J. pleaded guilty to failure to file a F-BAR.
Acting Assistant Attorney General DiCicco and U.S. Attorney Durkan commended the IRS agents who investigated the case, as well as Trial Attorney Michael J. Watling of the Tax Division who is prosecuting the case.
United States citizens who have an interest in, or signature or other authority over, a financial account in a foreign country with assets in excess of $10,000 are required to disclose the existence of such account on Schedule B, Part III of their individual income tax return. Additionally, American citizens much file an F-BAR with the U.S. Treasury, disclosing any financial account in a foreign country with assets in excess of $10,000 for which they have a financial interest in or signature authority, or other authority over.
http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pr/2009/October/09-tax-1074.html
 

Boeing's Stealthy International F-15 Proposal

A reader just sent this.  I would say my reader has a valid question.  Boeing is proposing putting our newest technology onto an old plane so they might sell the planes to non-US customers.  If they get away with this, we lose any measure of technology advance above other countries and interests.  This company has been so busy selling or giving away our advantage in the opinion of this observer; the US is in sorry shape now, even without the loss of this particular technology. 

 

Who is minding the store anyway?  It seems like every system of security and protection has broken down.  Agencies, like many members of Congress are so compromised, that they are not doing their due diligence to protect our citizens and country.  It is sad when those who are supposed to be in oversight have forgotten whom they are supposed to be advocating for. 

 

It appears there is so much corruption infiltrating both industry and government, it’s like watching a slow motion multi-car pile up and most of us, feel absolutely unable to do anything to avert the disaster and can only watch our country and national security go down the tube.   -GFS

 

 

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I wonder if Boeing will get this one past the State Department, Directorate of Defense Trade Controls and all those defense agencies that have a stake in its proliferation.  Passing any level of Advanced Technology outside of the United States, to even our closest allies, should be contemplated only with the most cautious of trepidation.

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 Stealthy International F-15 Proposal

 

Heavy Metal

Wednesday, April 15, 2009 @ 01:18PM

Boeing Proposes Stealthy F-15

With just about all the future fighter work having gone to Lockheed Martin, Boeing came up with an interesting proposal to keep the old McDonnell Douglas fighter production going.

Boeing got waxed on the ATF and JSF competitions (which resulted in the F-22 and F-35, respectively). While Boeing is doing some work for the F-22 as a subcontractor to Lockheed-Martin, the only fighter programs they have going are evolutions of the decades-old F-15 and F-18. Both programs have evolved astronomically since their inception (e.g. the ground-attack versions of the F-15, the 1/3 upsized F-18E/F programs), and are still quite competitive with 4th-generation fighters such as the Eurofighter, Rafale and Gripen. Along with the Lockheed-Martin F-16 of the same generation (which has also been radically evolved), Boeing offers both fighters into a number of international competitions.

But time is running out on the F-15. The US Air Force will be replacing it with the F-22, and the export market is becoming saturated. Most international competitions are looking for newer-generation fighters.

Late last month, Boeing came out with an interesting proposal - “stealthifying” the venerable F-15:

Boeing unveiled the prototype of a new variant of the F-15 Strike Eagle aimed at the Asian and Middle East markets that will incorporate stealthy coatings and structure here on Mar. 17.

Company officials hope the new aircraft will garner up to 190 orders, extending the F-15 line beyond the current backlog of 38 aircraft for South Korea and Singapore. Since the company lost the Joint Strike Fighter contest to Lockheed Martin, the future of its St. Louis manufacturing facility has been uncertain. Continued F-15 sales, as well as additional orders for F/A-18E/Fs and EA-18Gs, are the only work in the foreseeable future for the plant.

Major design changes in the new “Silent Eagle” version include internal bays within the existing conformal fuel tanks that can carry a variety of air-to-air and air-to-ground weapons. Each tank will be configured to hold two air-to-air missiles, including the AIM-9 and AIM-120 or a combination of the two. For the air-to-ground mission, 1,000- and 500-pound Joint Direct Attack Munitions can be carried or four 250-pound Small Diameter Bombs per tank. Weapons loadout can also be split between the AIM-120 and JDAM for a multirole mission. The Silent Eagle configuration includes 15-degree outward-canted V-tails - a shift away from the characteristic vertical fins of the F-15 that reduces the radar cross-section.

Check out the internal weapons storage:

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This new plane isn’t going to be cheap:

Jones estimates the cost of a Silent Eagle will be about $100 million per aircraft, including spares, if built new. A retrofit kit including the conformal fuel tanks, DEWS and coatings could be added to existing Strike Eagles, he says.

$100M? That’s not much cheaper than the current target price of the F-35 (~$130M, I believe).

The F-22 isn’t exportable (due to its state-of-the-art stealth and radar/electronic warfare capabilities, not even our closest allies get access to it). The F-35 is likely to be widely exported (the UK, Japan, Israel and a number of smaller NATO countries), although in a downrated form (there’s a lot of debate over the stealth and EW capabilities for export partners.

I actually didn’t take this announcement all that seriously last month - the price tag is just too high, and I’m unconvinced that stealth can be retrofitted this way (in particular, the engine inlets). But with the F-22 being cancelled as part of the DoD 2010 budget rationalization, I could see the Air Force buying some of these proposed upgrade kits for some of its newer F-15s.

This program will be interesting to watch, from both the domestic and international customer perspective. I’ve certainly got to hand it to Boeing for trying this.

http://www.victoriousopposition.com/index.php/site/category/heavy-metal/

 

 

 

Boeing and GD to pay billions on A-12 Program

A reader sent this today.  After telling everyone numerous times that many investigations are still being worked, and lawsuits waiting to be filed, perhaps we are now seeing some of these be released to the view of the public.  It is still the tip of the ice berg.  It is just beginning to snowball.  Either Boeing has stepped up their unethical activities and gotten sloppy, or maybe oversight is beginning to recover after the death of the Justice Dept. (and the inability to get anything prosecuted) during the last administration and do their jobs!  I hope it is the latter.  If so, three cheers for an enlivened group of federal oversight investigators and agents!  -GFS

 

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Boeing and General Dynamics to pay billions on A-12 Program

 

G. Florence-

 

It just doesn’t stop.  Is any DoD oversight agency responsible for defense contractors doing their job?

 

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Boeing, General Dynamics to pay billions to settle stealth aircraft dispute

 

 

Story Published: Jun 3, 2009 at 9:11 AM PDT

Story Updated: Jun 3, 2009 at 9:11 AM PDT

 

By Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) - Boeing Co. and General Dynamics Corp. must pay the government $2.8 billion to settle a nearly two-decade dispute over the cancellation of a Navy contract for a stealth aircraft, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled Tuesday.

 

The Navy was justified in 1991 when it opted to terminate the $4 billion contract with McDonnell Douglas and General Dynamics to build a stealth aircraft, the court said.

 

Chicago-based Boeing, which acquired McDonnell Douglas in 1997, said it will appeal the ruling.

 

The aircraft project was ended for being substantially over budget and behind schedule, according to the Justice Department. Both contractors were under a fixed-price contract to develop the A-12, a carrier-based attack aircraft.

 

But because of serious technical difficulties, the Pentagon refused to approve additional funding, leading the Navy to cancel the program.

 

In a 29-page opinion, the court explained the contractor's performance history showed that "the government was justifiably insecure about the contract's timely completion."

 

Both contractors are now required to repay the government more than $1.35 billion, plus interest of $1.45 billion.

 

Boeing had questioned whether the government owed money to both companies for work in progress when the contract was terminated.

 

In a statement, Boeing called for an immediate appeal of the court's ruling. A spokesman for Falls Church, Va.-based General Dynamics was not immediately available Tuesday evening.

 

 http://www.komonews.com/news/boeing/46820857.html

 

Boeing to pay $25 Million for defective work on U.S. refueling tankers

A reader sent this in today.  It seems just like I’ve said many times here, that each instance of Boeing fraud and other alleged and prosecuted crimes is only the tip of the proverbial iceberg.  -GFS

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G. Florence-

 

No one is overseeing the defense contractors, they are out of control.

 

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The Miami Herald

 

Boeing pays $25 million to settle US probe

 

BofA agrees to $33M SEC fine over Merrill bonuses

 

Bank of America Corp. has agreed to pay a $33 million penalty to settle government charges that it misled investors about Merrill Lynch's plans to pay bonuses to its executives, regulators said Monday.

In seeking approval to buy Merrill, Bank of America told investors that Merrill would not pay year-end bonuses without Bank of America's consent. But the Securities and Exchange Commission said Bank of America had authorized New York-based Merrill to pay up to $5.8 billion in bonuses.

That rendered a statement Bank of America mailed to 283,000 shareholders of both companies about the Merrill deal "materially false and misleading," the SEC said in a statement.

The Associated Press    Posted August 13, 2009

 

WASHINGTON -- Boeing Co. agreed Thursday to pay the U.S. government $25 million to settle claims the company did defective work on critical military refueling planes in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The settlement arose out of a whistle-blower lawsuit filed in Texas by two former Boeing workers who will now receive $2.6 million for drawing attention to the issue.

The Justice Department had investigated the Chicago-based aerospace giant for allegedly defective work on the Air Force fleet of KC-10 Extenders, which are used for in-flight refueling in the Iraq and Afghanistan war theaters.

The work was done while performing maintenance on the planes at the Boeing Aerospace Support Center in San Antonio, Texas.

The government investigation found Boeing overcharged the government for installing insulation blankets by padding the estimated hours of work and charging an excessive hourly rate for labor.

In announcing the settlement, Assistant Attorney General Tony West said companies that do work for the United States "must deal honestly with the government."

Even as it agreed to fork over millions of dollars, the company still insisted it did nothing wrong.

"Boeing disagreed with the (Justice Dept.) claims that our employees improperly installed the blankets and improperly billed the Air Force for our work," company spokesman Forrest Gossett said. He said the company decided to settle in order to "move forward" as it continues to do maintenance work on the planes.

Under terms of the settlement, Boeing will pay $18.4 million in cash and do $6.6 million worth of repairs.

 

Link:  http://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics/AP/story/1185002.html

Whistleblower Claims Cost Boeing $2 Million

 

 

Boeing to pay $2 million over whistleblower claims

 

Link: http://www.cbs42.com/business/story/Boeing-to-pay-2-million-over-whistleblower-claims/QwvGTFFJ2US_nfcaaVBqmQ.cspx

 

 

The Boeing logo hangs on the corporate world headquarters building of Boeing in Chicago, Illinois. (Scott Olson/File, Getty Images)

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A $2 million payment will be made by The Boeing Co. to settle a whistleblower's claims of bogus billing records at a plant in San Antonio.

The settlement with the Justice Department involves maintenance of Air Force planes.

The 2006 case involves claims by former Boeing employee Edward Quintana.

Quintana alleges Boeing manipulated records to show more people were doing maintenance on KC-135 tankers, when the work was usually done by just him.

Boeing spokeswoman Deborah Vannierop says the company cooperated with the review and has corrected "internal charging" issues.

Vannierop says at no time was readiness compromised and Boeing continues to keep the KC-135 "mission ready."

Quintana's lawyers say he is entitled to as much as 25 percent of the $2 million payout.

 

Boeing Whistleblower, The Last Inspector, Gerald Eastman commented about this story at the Seattle Times. 

 

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Great for the whistleblower and the government.

This won't by far be the last time Boeing has to pay for retaliating against whistleblowers and bilking the government.

There are several whistleblower lawsuits in the works, just in Washington state. Most have to do with Boeing's standard paolicy of retaliating against whistleblwers by harassing them, firing them and using every bit of their excessive power to ruin their lives.

I've been on the recieving end of that same retaliation for reporting fraud at Boeing that has cost lives, not just money.

"Boeing spokeswoman Deborah Vannierop...declined comment on Quintana's lawsuit that Boeing retaliated and fired him because he reported the alleged violations. She said the company encourages employees to report wrongdoing."

At least Boeing's spokesperson didn't deny that Boeing retaliated and fired him because he reported the violations. Boeing probably knows at this point no one would believe them if they denied it.

Her last sentence is true--Boeing does encourage employees to report wrongdoing, precisely so the company can identify those that would report Boeing's fraud so they can retaliate against them.

Been there. Seen and experienced that.

If you report a coworker sleeping on the job you are safe (unless you report a managemer doing so), but report any of the numerous frauds Boeing is involved in to maximize the bottom line and you have just put a target on your back, and Boeing management will not rest untill they've bagged you once you are deemed such a threat to their ongoing fraudulent schemes and lawbreaking.

Not the Boeing shown in the commercials noted mby someone below, or the Boeing you would like to remember?

Get used to it. As long as the current corrupt management team remains, more of these stories will come out, and Boeing will lose more and more contracts.

Boeing knows that the piddly 2 million is no reason to change their lawbreaking ways "to enhance value." As long as they calculate the fines are less than the money they bring into the company by committing fraud, they will continue to commit fraud.

After all, even the $615 million fine in 2006 for the tanker contracting crimes by the company and the Lockheed data theft/procurement fraud crimes by the company did not deter the company one iota from fraudulent activity, so why would a 2 million dollar fine?

Why the current management at Boeing wiill not let go of the reigns until they have driven the company into the ground by their frauds and incompetence is beyond me.

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Follow this link to read the Times posting of the story and all of the reader comments: 

http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/reader_feedback/public/display.php?source_name=mbase&source_id=2009639114

 

Boeing VP concerned about the public reading non-Boeing controlled blogs

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain….  Boeing wants you to only read and believe their corporate blogs.  Got that?  The all and powerful Boeing has spoken.  –GFS

P.S.  Please look at these documents and see how serious Boeing has been about following “securities laws and regulations that dictate how we disclose significant events.”  Link:http://gflorencescott.wordpress.com/2009/07/16/boeing-sued-class-action-for-violations-of-federal-securities-laws/

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Heard it through the grapevine

Link to Boeing Corporate Blog Site(S):

http://boeingblogs.com/randy/archives/2009/04/heard_it_through_the_grapevine.html

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As we get closer to the first flight of the 787 Dreamliner, clearly there’s going to be more and more focus on day-to-day, if not minute-to-minute progress. It’s the first new airplane program where we’ve seen the full effects of “new media” or “social media” coverage.

Forums and sites are proliferating - ranging from fan and hobbyist pages to journalist blogs and everything in between – chronicling even the most obscure details gleaned from “sources.”

Web sites and blogs focused on commercial aviation are nothing new. We’ve been discussing commercial aviation through this blog for more than four years now. There are many experienced industry writers, journalists, and analysts who provide pertinent commentary through Web sites and other media. They add to the discourse and make the industry all the more interesting and exciting.

The challenge is distinguishing those sources and pages from the various blogs, Twitters and other sites which sometimes position themselves as authoritative – but really are not.

Even the most informed outsiders frequently lack comprehensive and direct knowledge of what’s happening at Boeing - including about our development programs, the 787 and 747-8.

Unfortunately, the seemingly insatiable appetite for any information about those programs has given rise to Web postings and social media sites that distribute rumors or details without ample – or sometimes any – of the context that would aid understanding of what’s really going on. Some of these sites use official sounding titles and designs in an attempt to enhance their credibility.

We’ve seen many examples of “exclusive” postings claiming to have just heard certain information from “sources.” These reports often claim to have inside information about our production plans or progress, orders, deliveries, cancellations, or development program milestones - that often turn out to be incorrect.

Airplane development programs are inherently complicated. What may seem like a major issue today is often fully resolved by tomorrow. Without the context that often can come only from a comprehensive program or company view, incorrect or incomplete information can be circulated as conclusion and fact when it is not. That helps nobody.

That’s why Boeing strives to communicate to the public when we’ve analyzed our data and reached truly informed conclusions, so we can provide definitive explanations of what’s happening. By the way, we’re also governed by securities laws and regulations that dictate how we disclose significant events.

So a bit of a “buyer beware” is in order. Shop carefully when it comes to the information you consume on the Web. Especially when that information has not come from a truly authoritative source.

Boeing Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle (EKV) Fraud Qui-Tam Case

Boeing Qui-Tam Case (Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle –EKV)

Link:  http://www.fas.org/spp/starwars/program/news00/000203-trw.htm

This is an excerpt; follow the link for the full case document

February 3, 2000

TO: Honorable Senate Committees and House Committees

and Honorable Government Officials

FROM: Dr. Nira Schwartz

2800-187 Plaza Del Amo

Torrance, CA. 90503

Email: nira7@aol.com

Tel: 310-787-8557

Subject:

1.      Qui-Tam Case CV96-3065 RAP Federal Court Los Angeles Related to Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle (EKV) Contract # DASG60-90-C-0165.

1.      Government Fraud and False Project/Technologies

2.      Please have the Government intervene in my Qui-Tam Case

3.      Please investigate the "Crime" and "covering-up" created by BOEING/TRW/NRC and some Government employees

 

Dear Honorable Officials,

I need your help to prevent the Government fraud and false EKV project/technologies. Please intervene in my Qui-Tam case. So far the Government declined to intervene in this Qui-Tam Case. I do believe that the Government employees that elected not to intervene in my case are not representing the true interest of the Government and/or our Nation.

1.      Nutshell Description

2.      For over ten years Contractor BOEING/TRW/NRC provided fraud and false technologies relative to a project known as Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle (EKV). Contract # DASG60-90-C-0165. Exo-atmospheric-kill-vehicle.

3.      BOEING/TRW/NRC provided to the Government false EKV performance reports, false test results, false test procedures, false robustness evaluation, false Risk Reduction test results and analysis. False discrimination performance that was based on alleged prior knowledge that was stated by the Government Technical Requirement Document (TRD) not to be available.

4.      Mr. Roberson at GBI/ARMY Huntsville Alabama sabotaged the DCIS/SCHWARTZ investigation, and concealed the Kalman Filter (KF) discrimination technology test results that pointed to performance that did not comply with the Government TRD performance requirements. This to cover up for the BOEING/TRW/NRC milking the Government for over ten years. Also to cover up for his wrong doing, of not reading the performance reports properly.

5.      Mr. Boster at GBI/ARMY Huntsville Alabama sabotaged the DCIS/SCHWARTZ investigation and openly refused to read the DCIS reports created by Special Agent Samuel Reed. Mr. Boster authorized false flight tests of the EKV project, and removed from the attacking scenarios deployed lethal objects that he became aware that the BOEING/TRW/NRC technologies will not discriminate, while reporting to his superiors of no problems.

6.      BOEING/TRW/NRC/POET reported false excellent EKV discrimination performance with the IFT-1A flight data. While their test result show that the PAT (Probability to Assign a Target) was less than 40% of what they falsely reported to the Government, with no way to correct it.

7.      Mr. Kith Englander and Mr. Charles Rando BMDO/DOD at Defense Pentagon in Washington knowingly approved and accepted false test performance results that were based on after the fact analysis. Approved discrimination of technology that must relay on parameters and their values not available in combat. Mr. Englander approved discrimination technology for over 10 years that must get close to the object within xx seconds to make discrimination but too late to maneuver to another object if it was the wrong object. Both approved kinetic interception knowingly that will not perform when the deployed objects are with xx attachment and/or yy attachment and/or with zz deployed motions. All defined within the TRD. Both ignored any conclusions from the Chinese missiles.

8.      LtCol. John B. Hoffman, United Sates Army Legal Services, Arlington VA, and Mr. Dennis Egan DOJ (Tel: 202-307-0240) wrote a letter on behalf of the Government decline intervention in SCHWARTZ Qui-Tam case that was based on lies.

9.      The project was originated in and about 1990. DCIS/SCHWARTZ investigation lasted since 1996 until 1999. Schwartz personally met the people listed above. For years SCHWARTZ also wrote to Secretary of Defense Honorable William S. Cohen, DIRKSEN, Secretary of Defense, 1000 Defense Pentagon, Washington, DC 20301-1000, and to Senate members but was ignored.

Even though Government officials and Army Generals are aware of the False BOEING/TRW/NRC EKV technology, million of dollars are still spend on flights testing this fraud. False interceptions with alleged missiles are provided to the public, while they were ‘arranged’ and that in real life with the use of enemy missile/deployment hardware/conditions these interceptions will not occur.

10.  Why not to develop a true technology. Why spending the public time and money on technology known not to work?

11.  The Result of the covering up by Government officials is that BOEING was awarded the EKV Lead System Engineer (LSI) and TRW was awarded the System Engineer of the EKV program. Both companies were awarded nine billion dollars as a price for their "crime" and "covering up" as Special Agent Reed of DCIS reported on 1999 (enclosed) and was forced to retire, and the Government Officials harassed and retaliated against SCHWARTZ, and declined intervention in her case based on lies. [Government and Government officials are endangering the Public safety for their own political benefits].

12.  The Problem is that the Government officials that are suppose to bring the fraud and false companies and technologies to Justice are part of the fraud.

13.  The performance reports of BOEING/TRW/NRC of the EKV program were false. To continue the cover up, Mr. Englander of DOD/BMDO falsely elected POET companies (such as Lawrence Livermore, MIT, and Aerospace Corporation) to be independent evaluator of the EKV BOEING/TRW/NRC. While Mr. Englander carefully selecting these companies to assure their final evaluations will be within his "request", since all of these companies were retained by BOEING/TRW to perform work on the same EKV project, or worked intensively with BOEING/TRW. Special Agent Reed requested to perform independent evaluation of the EKV technology and was denied, by lack of money.

14.  The EKV discrimination based on an IR sensor does not work and will not work. The BOEING technology will not discriminate the lethal object deployed out of the decoys. The EKV will not destroy/intercept with an object that has an "xxx" (classified shape that the enemy use), or a "yyy" (classified shape that the enemy use) or posses zzz motion, that the enemy missiles deployed objects have, or have the enemy deployed mechanism, in a kinetic impact. All are a large percentage of the enemy lethal deployed objects inventory, and identified within the Government TRD (Technical Requirement Document).

15.  A Qui-Tam case #CV96-3065 Honorable Judge Paez, federal Court Los Angeles. Where the Government declined to intervene.

16.  The Honorable Judge Paez Los Angeles Federal Court dismissed the Qui-Tam case unless SCHWARTZ finds a lawyer within 30 days from today.

17.  Local Rule 2.1 does not allow SCHWARTZ as a Pro se to represent the Government in a Qui-Tam case.

18.  SCHWARTZ may be connected at Tel: 310-787-8557, fax: 310-782-9074, Email: nira7@aol.com, or at 2800-187 Plaza Del Amo, Torrance, CA. 90503.

19.  SCHWARTZ has DCIS/DOD-IG documents to support her allegations. SCHWARTZ has tests result she performed, the POET performed, and BOEING/TRW performed.

20.  SCHWARTZ requests to have the Government intervene in the Qui-Tam Case. Investigate and stop the fraud, and punish the Companies and Government officials that knowingly supported the fraud.

21.  Please initiate a congressional investigation reflecting these above issues.

22.  No point writing the Inspector General of the Defense Department DOD-IG requesting a renewed investigation. They are aware of the problem, and were part of causing/forcing Special Agent Reed to retire. The only person that was honest and lost his job within the Government to protect our Nation.

23.  For ten years we tested technologies that do not work, and will not work. The enemy is improving his Deployed objects, while we are playing interception with out-dated deployed objects, and with technologies that will not work, and known not to be working since 1979.

24.  Enclosed are three documents. Mr. Roy Danchick Declaration, Special Agent Reed reports.

Please intervene in my Qui-Tam case. Please investigate and stop the fraud in the EKV project/program.

 

Thanks,

Dr. Nira Schwartz

Boeing's 787 Test Failure and the Larger Shadow That Looms Behind

The failure to complete (or even attempt) the 787 test flight recently, has unleashed a flurry of information and discussion.  See Jon Ostrower’s post below.

 Then follow links to the Andrea James blog regarding this and other problems for Boeing, as well as illuminating comments from readers of Ms. James’ blog.  One of the problems that we are facing is that the problems are so large and systemic, it is hard to see the whole picture, to grasp their true breadth and depth.  And Boeing makes a habit of creating as difficult time as possible for anyone wanting to get to the bottom of things including federal oversight authorities. 

More comments will no doubt be posted on the Seattle PI blog, so check back in later for updates as well. 

-GFS

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Commentary: It's time for Boeing to talk.  To itself.

Link:  http://www.flightglobal.com/blogs/flightblogger/2009/07/commentary-its-time-for-boeing.html

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Jon Ostrower

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On July 9, 2007, ZA001, or what was later to become ZA001 wrapped up one final photo op for the morning television news shows. The aircraft sat at the head of the 747 line gleaming brand new. Once the camera lights dimmed, the 787 was rolled back to  Building 40-26 and the real work to prepare for flight had begun, a task that continues two years later. White plastic decals were  removed from the wings, painted foil covering unfilled fastener holes were removed, the  full extent of the show N787BA had been prepared for the day prior could no longer remain unreconciled against the work that would be required to make it fly.

Those working directly with the airplane knew full well that the first 787 was far from its maiden sortie, but why pronouncements like this from program vice president Mike Bair at the Paris Air Show in June 2007?

"The aircraft will be structurally complete at rollout but will still have systems, ducting, wiring and similar work to be done before first flight. When those tasks are completed, it will be powered up and proceed to ground test before it flies."

Vought would confirm publicly a year later that the first aft fuselage barrel was only 16% structurally complete at the time of shipment to Everett.

At the time the roll out festivities came to a close, August 27th was the target for first flight, one month and 18 days later. What followed is well documented.

Almost exactly two years later, Boeing Commercial Airplanes CEO Scott Carson said assuredly (June 15) to the gathered crowd of reporters at the Paris Air Show: "We remain absolutely committed to our forecast that it will fly in the second quarter of this year. If you count the way I do, that means within the next two weeks roughly."

Carson would also later tell CNN at the show, "The technical issues are largely all behind us."

Just over a week later, Boeing revealed the extent of the weakness in the wing to body join.

Yet, in that statement, there lies a question of how it got to that point? How could an executive near the head of a Fortune 50 company make such a statement? Was it just a breakdown in communication? Or something more telling about the state of the program? The information, or the gravity of the information, didn't flow where and when it needed to.

Mr. Carson, in responding to questions on the delay announcement said:

When we were at Paris last week we had been through the preliminary analysis of the data and were of a mind that the airplane could enter flight test with a credible flight test envelope as we worked relatively minor modifications. The work done by the team through the week last week narrowed the envelope to the point where on Friday we determined that to fly would be such a small envelope for us that it would be an interesting exercise in having the airplane in the air but not particularly useful in terms of preparing the airplane for certification. So at that point is when we made the call to delay the process, identify the fix, test the fix, install the fix, and then enter a flight test program that is fully robust.

A program built on global transparency did not live up to its own early expectation and the lessons continue to be manifested in changes like the 50% acquisition of Global Aeronautica in March 2008 and the establishment of the Production Integration Center, a mission control nervous system for the global supply chain that became operational in December 2008, and most recently this week with the Vought South Carolina buy out.

Many program sources have suggested privately that as Boeing has improved its visibility outward, it still struggles with communicating with itself. Good news flows freely to the top, yet the bad news is not elevated to an appropriate level. They talk of a 'kill the messenger' culture has established itself inside the program, where the push to move ahead and show marked progress is often in conflict with requiring the often uncomfortable task of ensuring that 'power' has 'truth' in its hands to make good decisions and communicate progress outwardly.

During my time in Paris, I received a message from South Carolina on Tuesday morning (June 16) that told of "emergent first flight issues" with no other details available. Another message from Washington, just a day later (June 17) suggested a rumor about possible delamination in the wingbox stringers, but the source added, "it is just a rumor to my knowledge."

From the point of view of covering the program, those rumors were almost impossible to substantiate. Separating the wheat from the chaff, takes a fine tooth comb that appears much more difficult when nine time zones away.

Yet, if this outside observer could know of these two hints a week before the delay announcement, how was this information flowing inside the company?

The story is far from unfamiliar and Boeing is far from the first aerospace company to face such a challenge.

At the height of the A380 delays facing Airbus, broken communication, both internal and external, drew the ire of airline customers, Wall Street and the media. On June 20, 2006, Flight International weighed in on the situation:

[Airbus Chief Operating Officer John] Leahy says it was the "low-tech stuff" that got them - the wiring harnesses - but this will hardly reassure the customers. More worrying is how Airbus management was apparently unable to hear the timebomb ticking in the A380's Jean-Luc Lagardère assembly plant a few kilometres from its Toulouse headquarters. Especially given that the join-up of sub-assemblies for new aircraft had been on hold for two months and working parties were furiously trying to rectify problems on completed aircraft.

The problem of communication not only impacts the outward credibility of the company's leadership, but how Boeing's own employees view those running the ship of state. If information isn't able to flow freely to the top without perception of fear of reprisal or penalty, then any report of information being disseminated from the top down may lack the credibility that the leadership needs to motivate employees to solve the challenges facing the program.

A 2006 speech by Boeing CEO James McNerney given in the wake of the US Air Force tanker scandal tackled this culture head on:

So then we had to ask ourselves some really tough questions: Were these lapses symptomatic of a larger issue with our corporate culture?...Did our people feel confident enough to speak up about ethical concerns without fear of retaliation?

McNerney discussed the solution to the problem:

To make sure everyone understands this, I think that you have to create a work environment that encourages people to talk about the tough issues--business- or ethics-related--and to make the right decisions when they find themselves at the crossroads between hitting their numbers for the quarter and stepping forward when there's a problem.

Boeing should ask itself if McNerney's vision has yet to become a reality.

 

To read Andrea James Seattle Post Intelligencer online blog and her readers’ comments, follow this link:

 

Link:  http://blog.seattlepi.com/aerospace/archives/173391.asp

 

 

 

 

Boeing competes to build Brazilian Warfighter

This particular contract is for defense planes for the government of Brazil.  Keep in mind that Boeing routinely negotiates as a part of getting planes sold to other nations, having parts manufacture and other work done for each contract in that nation, as well as parts manufacture and other work done for other contracts.  Pretty much, whatever it takes to make a sale, appears to be the customary rule. 

 

Do you recall when Boeing fired many of their machinists, a decade ago and then had the parts manufactured in China?  The result was the few machinists left in the U.S., (I heard from some in the Seattle area), that the parts were so bad that the U.S. machinists were having to re-machine them before they could be used in the building of Boeing planes. 

 

Do you also recall when Boeing decided to move certain composite manufacturing processes to China?  It didn’t take long before China announced they were going to compete in the manufacturing of aircraft in competition with Boeing and others.  Amazing how fast technology can be stolen given proxmimity and poor security.  There has been more than one event of improper transfer of classified technology to foreign interests brought about by poor business or security practices by Boeing, meaning loss of U.S. defense technology and “edge.”

 

Remember these and other examples of Boeing outsourcing the next time you hear the argument that Boeing should get the government defense contract “because they are a U.S. Company who uses local U.S. workers.    Please see other previous posts about other outsourcing of Boeing work to the detriment of U.S. workers.  -GFS 

 

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From Tulsa World

 

Boeing pursues contract for warplane in Brazil

 

Link:  http://www.tulsaworld.com/business/article.aspx?subjectid=46&articleid=20090711_46_E1_hDowJo291187

 

 

by: Associated Press

Saturday, July 11, 2009

7/11/2009 4:15:22 AM

 

Boeing Co. says it's prepared to have Brazilian manufacturers supply a "big portion" of components for its Super Hornet jetfighter in order to sell 36 of the warplanes to the South American nation.

 

The move could create as many as 5,000 jobs in Brazil.

 

Jim Albaugh, head of Boeing's defense unit, said agreements have been signed with 27 Brazilian companies that are capable of producing parts for the F/A-18, including Empresa Brasilieira de Aeronautica SA, the world's fourth-largest airplane maker.

 

Should Brazil buy the jet from Boeing, it will create opportunities for suppliers beyond defense, Albaugh said.

 

"A big portion of the F-18 will be built here," he told Bloomberg news Friday during an interview in Brasilia. "For every dollar that goes toward that airplane, that money will come back to Brazil as manufacturing, software, avionics, and electronics."

 

Brazil is beefing up its military after years of neglect and also is seeking to rebuild its arms export industry.

 

Chicago-based Boeing is competing in Brazil with Saab AB, the Swedish maker of the Gripen warplane, and Paris-based Dassault Aviation SA, which is pitching its Rafale.

 

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is expected to award a contract, which analysts say could be worth as much as $4.5 billion, as early as next month.