Amy (aka Wonder Woman) just stuck a fork in the conversation this morning. Just to remind everyone, Sweetman posted this comment to her latest post...
Nothing confirms that the program is going tickety-boo like the second big management shake-up in seven months, bringing in a new deputy with no ties to Aeronautics, Fort Worth, Navair or USAF.Hmm. Rather bitchy on his part but still tame in my world.
Wonder Woman wasn't having it though and she laid the verbal smack down to Sweetman with this comment!
Clearly LM has chosen its leaders for this phase of JSF -- and potentially for the future of the company. Not sure it is the job of a journalist to spin this ...Like I said, this is getting good.
One interesting point is to bring in some talent outside Aero may just be what was needed. Keep the sector bathwater drinking low may have been a goal. At any rate, in the past year or so, Dan Crowley is out, Lawson is in and the deputies have shifted. Burbage is still the anchor for the international program. Last year, the criticism was there was no leadership change at LM after Heinz was dismissed -- now the criticism is that there is a leadership change. Seems the spin is fickle at times. Either way -- this blog is intended to simply document the change.
Amy verbally grabbed him by the throat, picked him up off the ground, told him to shut the fuck up and then body slammed him.
Awesome!
Don't get up Bill. Stay down!
I just don't see how Sweetman is being any snarkier here than he was, for instance, in criticizing the Typhoon's performance in Libya, in fact he seems nicer about it to me.
ReplyDeleteI would guess that this means the new Pentagon guy, Vice Adm. Venlet didn't have confidence in the LM team, though that was inevitable given the way way Venlet came in after Heinz was clearly fired. LM shuffling their team before Venlet had a chance to get his feet wet would have been stupid on LM's part, no matter how much heat their team was getting, since that would have risked another shuffle if Venlet thought they had gone the wrong way.
In a lot of ways we're back to the "half full vs. half empty" argument. Half full is that LM is making needed changes, half empty is that this is an admission of the bad management in the past, especially the part about elevating the EVM firefighter to be newly created VP of EVM.
Like all the other recent F35 developments, it's probably a step in the right direction even if it is later and more expensive than it should have been. Sweetman more or less says as much in a follow up comment on the same blog.
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ReplyDeletei totally disagree.
there was no need to verbalize that on Amy's post. none at all.
Bill had a hard on and he wanted to get his feelings out to the world.
Amy's right. Bill complained (heck i did too) that a Marine General got fired but LM staff stayed. she's right in that we complained then and that he's wrong in complaining that they're doing it now.
if you read between the lines and thats not a strong suit of mine, i like people to be direct, you'll see the tension thats creeping into the ARES house.
i love it and the editor in chief is having to battle to keep these personalities in check.
its funny as hell to me, but i can't let you defend Bill on this one. he's wrong as 3 left feet.
I used to listen to Check 6 and I would have never thought that that little voice...well she kicked ass and took names. She smacked RSF hard too.
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ReplyDeleteI doubt anybody would care Thomas. You're a troll and probably deserved the earful you got.
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