F-35 통합사무국, 심각한 결함을 비상식적 축소 분류

 1981년 부터 국방 행정을 감시 해온 초당적민간기구인 POGO에 따르면 

합동사무국 임원들이 조종사 사망 내지 중상을 초래 하거나 무기체계에

심각한 손상을 줄 수 있는 카테고리 1에 해당 되는 결함 19개를 덜 심각한

단계인 카테고리 2로 낮췄다고 합니다.

 

 그중 10개는 고칠 계획이 안 세워져 있는 거라고 하구요.

 

 게다가, 결함 분류 회의에 F-35 엔지니어링 총감독이 참석 하지 

않았다고 합니다.

  

 

 

 F-35 Program Cutting Corners to Complete Development

 

 2018.08.29

 

 Officials in the F-35 Joint Program Office are making paper reclassifications 

of potentially life-threatening design flaws to make them appear less serious, 

likely in an attempt to prevent the $1.5 trillion program from blowing through 

another schedule deadline and budget cap.

 

 The Center for Defense Information at the Project On Government Oversight 

(POGO) obtained a document showing how F-35 officials are recategorizing 

rather than fixing.

 

 During the test and evaluation process, the testing personnel identify and

categorize design deficiencies based on severity, breaking them down into 

Categories I and II, with degrees of priority within each category. 

 

 Category I deficiencies “may cause death, severe injury, or severe occupational 

illness; may cause loss or major damage to a weapon system; critically restricts 

the combat readiness capabilities of the using organization; or result in a 

production line stoppage.” 

 

 A recent GAO report found that, as of January 2018, the F-35 program still had 

111 of these. Category II deficiencies “could impede or constrain successful 

mission accomplishment.” The program had 855 of these significant, though less 

catastrophic, design flaws. 

 

 A copy of the minutes from the F-35 Deficiency Review Board’s June 4, 2018 

meeting, obtained by POGO, shows that the Board downgraded 19 serious 

(Category I) deficiencies to the less-serious Category II, including 10 with no 

plan in place to correct the known design flaws.

 

 In three instances, status changes were made “per direction from the F-35 DOE 

[Director of Engineering].” It should be noted that the director of engineering, 

Jay Fiebig, did not attend this meeting. Rather, the deputy director of engineering, 

Joe Krumenacker, served as chairman. 

 

 Without further documentation, it is unclear whether the F-35’s remaining 90 

Category I deficiencies are being recategorized in the same manner.