MAGA Dotard caused USA TOTALLY DIVIDED & RIPPING APART BY MANY MANY SPLIT LINES! Now even reveries between Boeing & Lockheed Martin are tearing Govt & Congress & Nation APART. Acting Pentagon Chief Patrick Shanahan is Boeing Boy! Lockheed Martin supplies F-35. Gone Fucked is USA internal fight and Civil War Coming!
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Trump's Acting Pentagon Chief Reportedly Said The $1 Trillion F-35 Is 'F*cked' And Never Should Have Been Made
Ryan Pickrell, Business Insider
January 09, 2019 at 11:41 AM
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The new defense chief, a former Boeing employee, has reportedly been extremely critical Lockheed Martin's F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter in private meetings, raising questions about whether he is bias in overseeing the largest weapons program in history.
Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan, who took over in the wake of former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis' resignation, spent more than 30 years at Boeing before he joined the Department of Defense in 2017 as the deputy secretary of defense.
Although he signed an ethics agreement recusing himself from participating in matters involving Boeing, the new defense chief has continuously bashed a key program for one of Boeing's top competitors in high-level meetings at the Pentagon and other private gatherings, Politico reports, citing former government officials who personally heard Shanahan make critical comments.
Shanahan reportedly called the F-35 stealth fighter "f---ed up,' saying that Lockheed "doesn't know how to run a program."
"'If it had gone to Boeing, it would be done much better,'" a former official recalled Shanahan saying, Politico reported.
He is said to have "dumped" on the aircraft regularly, with a former Trump administration official noting that he kind of "went off" on the program last year. "He would complain about Lockheed's timing and their inability to deliver, and from a Boeing point of view, say things like, 'We would never do that,'" the former official revealed.
U.S. Air Force F-35 Lightning II joint strike fighter crew chief, Tech. Sgt. Brian West, watches his aircraft approach for the first time at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., July 14, 2011. Aircraft 0747 is the Department of Defense's newest aircraft. (U.S. Air Force/Samuel King Jr.)
In other private meetings, Shanahan has reportedly called the program "unsustainable," complaining about the cost in particular of the stealth fighters, with separate versions built for the Navy, Marines and Air Force. The F-35 is expected to cost more than $1 trillion over the life of the program, making it the most expensive weapon in US military history.
Current administration officials, however, told Politico that Shanahan's comments are being taken out of context, stressing that he is not advocating for Boeing. "I don't believe that's the case at all. I think he's agnostic toward Boeing at best," one official explained. "I don't think there's any intent to have Boeing favored in the building."
This is not the first time Shanahan's loyalties have been called into question. The Pentagon is supposedly planning a request for $1.2 billion for 12 Boeing F-15 X fighter jets, a decision that was made at Shanahan's urging, according to Bloomberg News. Air Force leaders had previously stated that there was no reason to buy these advanced fourth-generation fighters because these aircraft lack the necessary stealth capabilities provided by fifth-generation planes, according to Defense News.
Despite the allegations, Shanahan's office says he remains committed to the recusal. In public, he has spoken highly of the F-35 program.
"The F-35 is our future," he said in September at the Air Force Association's Air, Space and Cyber Conference. "I think we can all agree that it is a remarkable aircraft, with eye-watering capabilities critical to the high end fight."
"I tip my hat to its broad team of government, industry, and international partners. Having worked on programs of similar size and complexity, I have enormous respect for your talent and commitment."
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Lockheed Martin CEO defends F-35 Joint Strike Fighter after criticism from acting defense secretary
A Lockheed Martin F-35 at the ILA Air Show in Berlin. (Axel Schmidt/Reuters)
By Aaron Gregg
January 29
Executives from Bethesda-based defense giant Lockheed Martin sought to reassure investors after a top Defense Department official criticized the cost of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, a $90 million jet that is the crown jewel of Lockheed’s business, in a news conference Tuesday morning.
Acting secretary of defense Patrick Shanahan, a former Boeing executive, said the F-35 “has room for a lot more performance” in response to questions about whether he is biased toward his former employer, which competes with Lockheed for Pentagon weapons deals. His comments come amid news reports that the Pentagon is considering buying F-15 fighter jets from Boeing.
“I am biased toward performance,” Shanahan said. “I am biased toward giving the taxpayer their money’s worth. And the F-35, unequivocally, I can say, has a lot of opportunity for more performance.”
Lockheed Martin chief executive Marillyn Hewson responded by saying she had been assured by Defense Department officials that any purchase of Boeing F-15 jets would not affect how many F-35s it buys.
“If they chose to have an order on F-15 … it won’t be at the expense of F-35 quantities,” Hewson told investors when an analyst raised the issue in the company’s quarterly earnings conference call. “I’m hearing that directly from the leadership in the Pentagon … not just our suspicion, but I’ve been told that directly. So I’m not concerned about that.”
Almost since its inception, the F-35 has been criticized by acquisition experts and politicians from both parties for its soaring costs. In 2017, then-Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee John McCain called it a “poster child for acquisition malpractice” as he took the Pentagon and Lockheed Martin to task for delays and cost overruns.
President Trump drew attention to the plane’s “out-of-control” costs in a tweet early in his presidency, in which he threatened to “price out a comparable F-18 Super Hornet” to save money on the F-35 as the Defense Department was negotiating with Lockheed Martin over the price of its 10th shipment of 90 planes. The Defense Department later announced a deal that was roughly in line with what had already been planned, shaving an estimated $728 million in costs.
The F-35 has continued to be a major driver of business for Lockheed Martin. Earlier this year, the company announced that it had added more than 250 aircraft to its order backlog at an estimated value of $19 billion, bringing the company’s overall order backlog to over 400 aircraft.
In a Tuesday call with investors, Hewson seemed to push back on criticism of the plane’s costs, pointing to her company’s progress toward getting the plane’s unit cost down to $80 million. The plane’s sticker price dropped below $90 million for the first time last year as the company has been producing the planes at a faster rate.
“We’re going to continue to drive the price down … and we won’t stop there,” Hewson said. “We will always be looking at ways that we can take cost down in the program as it continues to mature and grow.”
This article has been updated to reflect the fact that Marillyn Hewson’s comments came in response to a question from an analyst.
Paul Sonne contributed to this report.
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Trump’s defense secretary faces ethics complaint over Boeing promotion
By: Tara Copp March 13
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A government watchdog group has asked the Department of Defense Inspector General to investigate whether Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan violated ethics rules by promoting Boeing weapons systems while serving as a government official.
Shanahan, 56, worked at Boeing for more than 30 years prior to being tapped by President Donald Trump to serve as deputy secretary of defense under former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis. When Mattis submitted his resignation in December, Shanahan was named by Trump as acting defense secretary.
Since coming to the Pentagon, Shanahan has faced criticism over reports that he has touted Boeing’s line of aircraft over rival Lockheed Martin. In the fiscal year 2020 budget released Tuesday, the Air Force is set to purchase up to 80 F-15Xs over the next five years — a system, made by Boeing, that the Air Force has said it does not want.
Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson told Defense News in February that the “budget proposal that we initially submitted did not include additional fourth-generation aircraft.”
Wilson’s comments confirmed reporting by Defense News and other outlets, which have reported that the decision to buy new F-15X aircraft was essentially forced upon the Air Force. According to sources, the Pentagon’s Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation Office was a key backer of the F-15X and was able to garner the support of the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
Last week, Wilson announced that she was stepping down as Air Force secretary to become president of the University of Texas-El Paso.
Previous news reports indicated that Shanahan has disparaged Lockheed Martin’s fighter, the F-35, and other Lockheed weapons systems in private Pentagon meetings. In January Politico reported that Shanahan called the F-35 “f---ed up” and reportedly said Lockheed “doesn’t know how to run a program.”
“Mr. Shanahan appears to have participated in the decision to include more than $1 billion in federal funds in the 2020 budget cycle for the F-15X fighter aircraft,” the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington said in their ethics complaint. “Mr. Shanahan’s reported conduct and comments appear to violate federal regulations and his Ethics Pledge, and CREW therefore requests that you investigate his alleged conduct.”
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Shanahan’s spokesman, Army Lt. Col. Joseph Buccino, said in a statement that “Secretary Shanahan has at all times remained committed to complying his Ethics Agreement, which screens Boeing matters to another DoD official and ensures no potential for a conflict of interest with Boeing on any matter."
The questions over Shanahan, who could be nominated by Trump as early as this week to serve officially as the Pentagon’s defense secretary, come as Boeing faces international scrutiny over its commercial passenger jet, the Boeing 737 Max-8. Shanahan’s last position at Boeing prior to coming to the Pentagon was at Boeing Commercial Airplanes, “where he served as senior vice president of Airplane Programs and oversaw the management of profit and loss for the 737, 747, 767, 777 and 787 programs,” the Pentagon said in 2017, when announcing his nomination.
Prior to leading the commercial airplane division, Shanahan oversaw Boeing Missile Defense Systems and was “vice president and general manager for Rotorcraft Systems in Philadelphia, where he was responsible for all U.S. Army Aviation, including the Bell-Boeing V-22 Osprey tiltrotor, the CH-47 Chinook and the AH-64D Apache attack helicopter,” DoD said at the time.
Shanahan was asked by CNN Tuesday about the MAX-8 crashes, and said “let’s let the FAA and others take command of the situation.”
The jet has been involved in two fatal crashes over the last five months, killing more than 300 passengers and crew, and it faces a worldwide grounding in dozens of countries. It is still flying in the U.S.
Defense News air warfare reporter Valerie Insinna contributed to this report.
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Trump’s acting defense chief is under investigation for allegedly trashing the F-35 at the Pentagon
Ryan Pickrell, Business Insider US
March 20, 2019
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“The Department of Defense Office of Inspector General has decided to investigate complaints we recently received that Acting Secretary Patrick Shanahan allegedly took actions to promote his former employer, Boeing, and disparage its competitors, allegedly in violation of ethics rules,” a DOD IG spokesperson told POLITICO, which reported in January that Shanahan had been critical of Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter.
Read More: Trump’s acting Pentagon chief reportedly said the $1 trillion F-35 is ‘f—ed’ and shouldn’t have been made
“Am I still wearing a Boeing hat? I think that’s just noise,” he said. “I’m biased towards performance. I am biased toward giving taxpayers their money’s worth. The F-35 unequivocally, I can say, has a lot of opportunity for more performance.”
Read More: Acting Pentagon chief appears to throw shade at the F-35 in thinly-veiled jab
Indeed, the F-35 continues to have problems. Project on Government Oversight, a nonpartisan independent watchdog, reported Tuesday that the stealth fighter “continues to dramatically underperform in crucial areas including availability and reliability, cyber-vulnerability testing, and life-expectancy testing.”
Read More: US Navy’s carrier-based F-35C stealth fighters may not be ready for combat after all
But, questions surround not only Shanahan’s comments but also reports of his involvement in the Pentagon’s decision to buy more of Boeing’s F-15X fighter jets, aircraft the US Air Force doesn’t actually want.
The investigation into Shanahan’s behavior comes just days after Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) submitted a nine-page complaint to DOD IG calling for the inspector general to investigate his ties to his former company.
Shanahan found out Tuesday that he is under investigation.
“Acting Secretary Shanahan has at all times remained committed to upholding his ethics agreement filed with the DoD,” a Pentagon spokesperson told POLITICO’s David Brown. “This agreement ensures any matters pertaining to Boeing are handled by appropriate officials within the Pentagon to eliminate any perceived or actual conflict of interest issue with Boeing.”
During a recent testimony before the Senate Armed Service Committee, Shanahan said that he welcomes the investigation, maintaining that his actions have consistently ethical.
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Trump's Acting Pentagon Chief Reportedly Said The $1 Trillion F-35 Is 'F*cked' And Never Should Have Been Made
Ryan Pickrell, Business Insider
January 09, 2019 at 11:41 AM
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The new defense chief, a former Boeing employee, has reportedly been extremely critical Lockheed Martin's F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter in private meetings, raising questions about whether he is bias in overseeing the largest weapons program in history.
Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan, who took over in the wake of former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis' resignation, spent more than 30 years at Boeing before he joined the Department of Defense in 2017 as the deputy secretary of defense.
Although he signed an ethics agreement recusing himself from participating in matters involving Boeing, the new defense chief has continuously bashed a key program for one of Boeing's top competitors in high-level meetings at the Pentagon and other private gatherings, Politico reports, citing former government officials who personally heard Shanahan make critical comments.
Shanahan reportedly called the F-35 stealth fighter "f---ed up,' saying that Lockheed "doesn't know how to run a program."
"'If it had gone to Boeing, it would be done much better,'" a former official recalled Shanahan saying, Politico reported.
He is said to have "dumped" on the aircraft regularly, with a former Trump administration official noting that he kind of "went off" on the program last year. "He would complain about Lockheed's timing and their inability to deliver, and from a Boeing point of view, say things like, 'We would never do that,'" the former official revealed.
U.S. Air Force F-35 Lightning II joint strike fighter crew chief, Tech. Sgt. Brian West, watches his aircraft approach for the first time at Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., July 14, 2011. Aircraft 0747 is the Department of Defense's newest aircraft. (U.S. Air Force/Samuel King Jr.)
In other private meetings, Shanahan has reportedly called the program "unsustainable," complaining about the cost in particular of the stealth fighters, with separate versions built for the Navy, Marines and Air Force. The F-35 is expected to cost more than $1 trillion over the life of the program, making it the most expensive weapon in US military history.
Current administration officials, however, told Politico that Shanahan's comments are being taken out of context, stressing that he is not advocating for Boeing. "I don't believe that's the case at all. I think he's agnostic toward Boeing at best," one official explained. "I don't think there's any intent to have Boeing favored in the building."
This is not the first time Shanahan's loyalties have been called into question. The Pentagon is supposedly planning a request for $1.2 billion for 12 Boeing F-15 X fighter jets, a decision that was made at Shanahan's urging, according to Bloomberg News. Air Force leaders had previously stated that there was no reason to buy these advanced fourth-generation fighters because these aircraft lack the necessary stealth capabilities provided by fifth-generation planes, according to Defense News.
Despite the allegations, Shanahan's office says he remains committed to the recusal. In public, he has spoken highly of the F-35 program.
"The F-35 is our future," he said in September at the Air Force Association's Air, Space and Cyber Conference. "I think we can all agree that it is a remarkable aircraft, with eye-watering capabilities critical to the high end fight."
"I tip my hat to its broad team of government, industry, and international partners. Having worked on programs of similar size and complexity, I have enormous respect for your talent and commitment."
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Lockheed Martin CEO defends F-35 Joint Strike Fighter after criticism from acting defense secretary
A Lockheed Martin F-35 at the ILA Air Show in Berlin. (Axel Schmidt/Reuters)
By Aaron Gregg
January 29
Executives from Bethesda-based defense giant Lockheed Martin sought to reassure investors after a top Defense Department official criticized the cost of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, a $90 million jet that is the crown jewel of Lockheed’s business, in a news conference Tuesday morning.
Acting secretary of defense Patrick Shanahan, a former Boeing executive, said the F-35 “has room for a lot more performance” in response to questions about whether he is biased toward his former employer, which competes with Lockheed for Pentagon weapons deals. His comments come amid news reports that the Pentagon is considering buying F-15 fighter jets from Boeing.
“I am biased toward performance,” Shanahan said. “I am biased toward giving the taxpayer their money’s worth. And the F-35, unequivocally, I can say, has a lot of opportunity for more performance.”
Lockheed Martin chief executive Marillyn Hewson responded by saying she had been assured by Defense Department officials that any purchase of Boeing F-15 jets would not affect how many F-35s it buys.
“If they chose to have an order on F-15 … it won’t be at the expense of F-35 quantities,” Hewson told investors when an analyst raised the issue in the company’s quarterly earnings conference call. “I’m hearing that directly from the leadership in the Pentagon … not just our suspicion, but I’ve been told that directly. So I’m not concerned about that.”
Almost since its inception, the F-35 has been criticized by acquisition experts and politicians from both parties for its soaring costs. In 2017, then-Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee John McCain called it a “poster child for acquisition malpractice” as he took the Pentagon and Lockheed Martin to task for delays and cost overruns.
President Trump drew attention to the plane’s “out-of-control” costs in a tweet early in his presidency, in which he threatened to “price out a comparable F-18 Super Hornet” to save money on the F-35 as the Defense Department was negotiating with Lockheed Martin over the price of its 10th shipment of 90 planes. The Defense Department later announced a deal that was roughly in line with what had already been planned, shaving an estimated $728 million in costs.
The F-35 has continued to be a major driver of business for Lockheed Martin. Earlier this year, the company announced that it had added more than 250 aircraft to its order backlog at an estimated value of $19 billion, bringing the company’s overall order backlog to over 400 aircraft.
In a Tuesday call with investors, Hewson seemed to push back on criticism of the plane’s costs, pointing to her company’s progress toward getting the plane’s unit cost down to $80 million. The plane’s sticker price dropped below $90 million for the first time last year as the company has been producing the planes at a faster rate.
“We’re going to continue to drive the price down … and we won’t stop there,” Hewson said. “We will always be looking at ways that we can take cost down in the program as it continues to mature and grow.”
This article has been updated to reflect the fact that Marillyn Hewson’s comments came in response to a question from an analyst.
Paul Sonne contributed to this report.
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Trump’s defense secretary faces ethics complaint over Boeing promotion
By: Tara Copp March 13
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A government watchdog group has asked the Department of Defense Inspector General to investigate whether Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan violated ethics rules by promoting Boeing weapons systems while serving as a government official.
Shanahan, 56, worked at Boeing for more than 30 years prior to being tapped by President Donald Trump to serve as deputy secretary of defense under former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis. When Mattis submitted his resignation in December, Shanahan was named by Trump as acting defense secretary.
Since coming to the Pentagon, Shanahan has faced criticism over reports that he has touted Boeing’s line of aircraft over rival Lockheed Martin. In the fiscal year 2020 budget released Tuesday, the Air Force is set to purchase up to 80 F-15Xs over the next five years — a system, made by Boeing, that the Air Force has said it does not want.
Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson told Defense News in February that the “budget proposal that we initially submitted did not include additional fourth-generation aircraft.”
Wilson’s comments confirmed reporting by Defense News and other outlets, which have reported that the decision to buy new F-15X aircraft was essentially forced upon the Air Force. According to sources, the Pentagon’s Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation Office was a key backer of the F-15X and was able to garner the support of the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
Last week, Wilson announced that she was stepping down as Air Force secretary to become president of the University of Texas-El Paso.
Previous news reports indicated that Shanahan has disparaged Lockheed Martin’s fighter, the F-35, and other Lockheed weapons systems in private Pentagon meetings. In January Politico reported that Shanahan called the F-35 “f---ed up” and reportedly said Lockheed “doesn’t know how to run a program.”
“Mr. Shanahan appears to have participated in the decision to include more than $1 billion in federal funds in the 2020 budget cycle for the F-15X fighter aircraft,” the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington said in their ethics complaint. “Mr. Shanahan’s reported conduct and comments appear to violate federal regulations and his Ethics Pledge, and CREW therefore requests that you investigate his alleged conduct.”
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Shanahan’s spokesman, Army Lt. Col. Joseph Buccino, said in a statement that “Secretary Shanahan has at all times remained committed to complying his Ethics Agreement, which screens Boeing matters to another DoD official and ensures no potential for a conflict of interest with Boeing on any matter."
The questions over Shanahan, who could be nominated by Trump as early as this week to serve officially as the Pentagon’s defense secretary, come as Boeing faces international scrutiny over its commercial passenger jet, the Boeing 737 Max-8. Shanahan’s last position at Boeing prior to coming to the Pentagon was at Boeing Commercial Airplanes, “where he served as senior vice president of Airplane Programs and oversaw the management of profit and loss for the 737, 747, 767, 777 and 787 programs,” the Pentagon said in 2017, when announcing his nomination.
Prior to leading the commercial airplane division, Shanahan oversaw Boeing Missile Defense Systems and was “vice president and general manager for Rotorcraft Systems in Philadelphia, where he was responsible for all U.S. Army Aviation, including the Bell-Boeing V-22 Osprey tiltrotor, the CH-47 Chinook and the AH-64D Apache attack helicopter,” DoD said at the time.
Shanahan was asked by CNN Tuesday about the MAX-8 crashes, and said “let’s let the FAA and others take command of the situation.”
The jet has been involved in two fatal crashes over the last five months, killing more than 300 passengers and crew, and it faces a worldwide grounding in dozens of countries. It is still flying in the U.S.
Defense News air warfare reporter Valerie Insinna contributed to this report.
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Trump’s acting defense chief is under investigation for allegedly trashing the F-35 at the Pentagon
Ryan Pickrell, Business Insider US
March 20, 2019
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- Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan is reportedly under investigation for alleged ethics violations, multiple outlets reported.
- Shanahan is said to have boosted his former employer, Boeing, at the Pentagon while criticizing competitor Lockheed Martin and its prized F-35 Lighting II Joint Strike Fighter.
- During a recent congressional hearing, Shanahan said he welcomed an investigation into these allegations, which he denies.
“The Department of Defense Office of Inspector General has decided to investigate complaints we recently received that Acting Secretary Patrick Shanahan allegedly took actions to promote his former employer, Boeing, and disparage its competitors, allegedly in violation of ethics rules,” a DOD IG spokesperson told POLITICO, which reported in January that Shanahan had been critical of Lockheed Martin’s F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter.
Read More: Trump’s acting Pentagon chief reportedly said the $1 trillion F-35 is ‘f—ed’ and shouldn’t have been made
A former senior Defense Department official told Politico that Shanahan previously described the F-35 stealth fighter as “f—ed up” and said its maker, Lockheed Martin, “doesn’t know how to run a program.”
In a press briefing with Pentagon reporters in late January, Shanahan, who worked at Boeing for 31 years before joining the Department of Defense, took a thinly veiled jab at the F-35 while justifying his biases.“Am I still wearing a Boeing hat? I think that’s just noise,” he said. “I’m biased towards performance. I am biased toward giving taxpayers their money’s worth. The F-35 unequivocally, I can say, has a lot of opportunity for more performance.”
Read More: Acting Pentagon chief appears to throw shade at the F-35 in thinly-veiled jab
Indeed, the F-35 continues to have problems. Project on Government Oversight, a nonpartisan independent watchdog, reported Tuesday that the stealth fighter “continues to dramatically underperform in crucial areas including availability and reliability, cyber-vulnerability testing, and life-expectancy testing.”
Read More: US Navy’s carrier-based F-35C stealth fighters may not be ready for combat after all
But, questions surround not only Shanahan’s comments but also reports of his involvement in the Pentagon’s decision to buy more of Boeing’s F-15X fighter jets, aircraft the US Air Force doesn’t actually want.
The investigation into Shanahan’s behavior comes just days after Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) submitted a nine-page complaint to DOD IG calling for the inspector general to investigate his ties to his former company.
Shanahan found out Tuesday that he is under investigation.
“Acting Secretary Shanahan has at all times remained committed to upholding his ethics agreement filed with the DoD,” a Pentagon spokesperson told POLITICO’s David Brown. “This agreement ensures any matters pertaining to Boeing are handled by appropriate officials within the Pentagon to eliminate any perceived or actual conflict of interest issue with Boeing.”
During a recent testimony before the Senate Armed Service Committee, Shanahan said that he welcomes the investigation, maintaining that his actions have consistently ethical.
