Author Topic: "The horse has left the barn" (Read 3923 times)

mars.is.wet · « **on:** 08/28/2008 06:04 pm »

Not sure if he is blowing smoke, but Wayne Hale has an interesting blog post

Then we started sending out termination letters. About two years ago, we terminated 95% of the vendors for parts for the external tank project, for example. Smaller, but still significant, percentages of vendors for SSME, Orbiter, and RSRB have also been terminated.

Seems to be a big deal. Most of these are mom-and-pop shops that would not be able to reconstitute their capability quickly.

Less germane but cute was

I believe it was General Norman Schwartzkopf who said: "Arm chair generals study tactics; real generals study logistics".

http://wiki.nasa.gov/cm/blog/waynehalesblog/posts/post_1219932905350.html

Thought it was a good read.