Missile Defense Agency Director Scolds Industry On Quality Control Issues

/ March 24, 2010 at 5:00 AM
The head of the Missile Defense Agency this week hammered contractors for not paying sufficient attention to quality control. "I have gone to a point where I am withholding funding for current contracts because I don't see the level of scrutiny and a level of culture necessary for the precision work that's required -- not in engineers' design capability, but actually in manufacturing," Army Lt. Gen. Patrick O'Reilly told attendees of a March 22 missile defense conference in Washington. MDA...

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