A PERFECT EXAMPLE OF A CORRUPT AND BROKEN GOVERNMENT
If GAO is the "WATCH DOG" of Congress, then I am the monkey's uncle. My fight to expose corruption at the GAO has just began. The USG should not be in the business of damaging a small business because of Congressional loyalty. More to follow the first of the week.
----- Original Message -----
From: OIGHotlineSent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 9:05 AMSubject: RE: THE MILITEC PLAN TO HARNESS THE DOD
Mr. Giordani,
We have received your e-mails and your complaint, and we thank you again for bringing this matter to our attention. We have reviewed the allegations raised in your complaint, and based on our review, we have decided to close this inquiry.
GAO's Office of Inspector General
From: Bradley P. Giordani [mailto:militec@militec1.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 09, 2011 12:54 PM
To: OIGHotline
Cc: Fraud; Brad Paul Giordani
Subject: Fw: THE MILITEC PLAN TO HARNESS THE DOD
Importance: High
Dear OIG,
I am hopeful that the fraud, waste and abuse that I have been highlighting is helpful to your ongoing, or not the ongoing investigation that I believe is more than warranted. May I please have a yes or no concerning a potential investigation? Do I need to file a FOIA to receive a simple answer? If the answer is yes I do, then I have no hope that the GAO is honest, let alone will conduct a proper investigation. I have supplied the OIG with mountains of information that is correct, or its all a big lie. What is the delay? Did Allen Westheimer deny saying that FRAUD used against Militec Inc to gain its NSN numbers were NOT ok? Did Allen Westheimer not mention lubricant additives over 50 times in a short report, without recommendations or conclusions?
GAO went out of its way to damage my company and its product. The report was promptly placed on-line without any rebuttals, even though GAO allows rebuttals for the Military. Please be advised, I will NOT drop this until justice is served. If I am wrong, PLEASE show me the errors of my way and I will leave you all alone. The fact is, I have the GAO over a barrel and can prove it very easily, however, GAO understands that politics (not honest government) dictates how and what GAO does.
I have given away all my money to help our country and what do I get in return, GAO selling out a small business based on political agendas. A broken government means folks are afraid to stick their necks out to prevent waste and abuse, since its easier do nothing, which ensures nothing changes.
May I please have a status of my complaint?
Thank you,
Brad P. Giordani
----- Original Message -----From: Bradley P. GiordaniTo: xxxxSent: Tuesday, August 09, 2011 10:52 AMSubject: THE MILITEC PLAN TO HARNESS THE DOD
Hi xxxx,The reason for this message is Rep. xxx comment about the debt rating being tied to DoD waste. I AGREE. I am a small business with 23 years of experience being cheated and abused by several DoD activities. When you have time, I wish you would read the "MILITEC PLAN (below) that will cut the majority of waste out of DoD. Competition is what made our country great. However, DoD and their "Old Boy Network" prevents even the most basic cuts. I would love to sit down with you and explain my simple plan of allowing credit lines for the troops to acquisition their gear through competitive websites. This will stop the bleeding of hundreds of billions annually.The attached message was sent to Lee Thompson (ALT) that also describes how to streamline the DoD by allowing full and open competition by the enforcement of the 1994/1996 law's that allows for commercial-off-the-self- technology (COTS) to be used and purchased by warfighters.I promise you the information is accurate and is the only way (In my view) to save hundreds of billions annually without cutting programs in advance. Thank you for your time!Brad P. Giordani, President, Militec, Inc.11828 Pika Drive, Waldorf, MD.20602 www.militec.com----------------------------------------------------------------------------Posted on my Blog this morning www.militec.blogspot.com There are approximately one-million DoD civilian jobs -- 779,163 regular jobs plus an undisclosed amount of contractors –estimated well over 100,000. The total number of warfighters is 1.43 million. The main problem with DoD is it’s mentality of one-shoe fitting all sizes as it did since World War One. This dated mentality is wasteful since our missions now are spread out across the planet, smaller groups being deployed and more women in the ranks which require adjustment to the basic gear. As an example, the rucksacks are now being modified since many warfighters are getting injured.This top heaving bureaucracy is so top heavy that even the most simple task (K-9 being deployed) results in, paralysis- by- analysis, which only reinforces the status quo. The only way to evaporate 500,000 workers is by allowing competitive on-line purchasing of gear by warfighters with credit lines. This new system will close down the money trail that has corrupted the DoD and prevents needed gear from reaching the warfighter.When we invaded Afghanistan, the equipment the average warfighter carried was all dated and nothing new other than the “Picatinny Rail”. It took warfighter questions to Donald Rumsfeld concerning ballistic protection for the Hummers to get action from the DoD bureaucracy.Where was the large civilian work force back home looking out for the troops when their vehicles were left defenseless? Warfighters were forced to weld steel plates onto vehicles -- in a war zone -- because one-million DoD folks back home and abroad were not watching their backs and they were also not smart enough to realize that ballistic protection might come in handy to protect loss of life. Plus, why did it take almost 10 years to field the right camouflage pattern to help hide the troops from the enemy? The blame for this imbalance is not republican or a democrat, its greedy DoD civilians that place their job security above the welfare of the troops. The proof of a broken DoD is evidenced by the lack of gear and the countless upgrades, and downgrades with the existing gear. DoD would rather use their own folks to fix (upgrade) a problem, versus using a better mousetrap that competition allows.Based on the variety and ever evolving technical screw-ups by DoD civilians since OEF started has proven the DoD work-force numbers have no bearing on the readiness of the average warfighter preparing for war. Troops today are still lacking basic staples that are supposed to be standard issue gear. Even with the countless billions from the free spending era of Bush, the average warfighter still did not have the basic gear prior to deployment. I have emails from front line soldiers to prove this in triplicate, if anyone cares if our troops have high confidence prior to landing in a war zone or not. Does the proper equipment matter when boots hit the ground in theater, your dam right it does and DoD has done a terrible job at keeping even basic supplies in stock, let alone delivered when needed.It puzzles me when I count the number of SES positions and other positions with the tremendous perks that are tied to the reliable DoD revolving door. Are these folks needed to oversee how tanks are made, or if they work? The point is this, if DoD folks cannot justify their position as supporting warfighters (versus supporting the bureaucracy) and all they do is “rubber stamp” documents for their bosses, then what good are they other than standing in the way of progress? Do these hard-boiled and embolden bureaucrats ensure our warfighters are safer every day, or are they there to deal with Capitol Hill politics and supporting the status quo?DoD must take the purse strings away from its civilian workforce that manages everyday items and allow warfighters to order all their gear online through competitive websites. Each warfighter would have a credit line and would be their responsibility to have the proper gear prior to deployment. Purchasing basic supplies online evaporates the civilian acquisition workforce and the related programs -- because no one needs or wants their services any longer.So why are folks so concerned over the cuts to defense? Is it that needed technology will not get to the troops and more of them will be killed, or is it the high paying government jobs with amazing benefits that allows too much idle time (for bureaucrats) to figure out how to spend as much of Uncle Sam’s money as possible, in order to have at least that same amount for the following year. As the saying goes, if you don’t use it, you lose it. To prove this, Militec Inc always sees a spike in sales at the end of the acquisition year for the very reason of spending all the money. If DoD was a business, many employees would be in jail. Why can’t a government agency be run like a business? The answer is easy, the corruption of politics allows for embolden rascals to run amok – under the umbrella of national security.This is not rocket science in dealing with pentagon cuts. All you have to do is look back at the past decade and count the new technology that is now standard issue for the troops and you will have the tragic answer. I’m not suggesting shutting down necessary programs that cannot be done through out-sourcing and total absorption through private sector innovation. The basic issue gear, weapons and accessories can all be privatized plus this eliminates redundancies and ensures the best products get to the troops and in time.DoD must realize that even active duty folks (PEO Soldier as example) will bend over for contractors because some will be leaving the service and want to have jobs. In other words, you can’t have future employment (for soldiers/DoD civies) interfere with getting the proper gear to the troops. The only way to cut acquisition waste for commodities (in our changing environment) is to allow credit lines for the acquisition of basic gear (by warfighters) through approved and competitively operated websites. This will not only eliminate the waste, it will make the accounting easier, since the troops will be the ones responsible for ordering their own supplies on-line prior to deployment.Some fault lies with the Association of the U.S. Army (AUSA) whom will only hire former commanders of Army Material Command (AMC) to become President of the Association. Why is the policy of AUSA to only hire former CG’s of AMC? This ensures the good old boy network and the money connections to AMC -- which pays the association Big Bucks for trade shows in DC and Florida in order to show off all the neat Gucci gear costing billions that seldom reach the average warfighter.AUSA hinders competition and prevents the creation of American jobs by carrying the services’ water to Capitol Hill to influence army-specific legislation. For this lobbying service, AMC pays AUSA for these high dollar tradeshows and related activities, including golfing outings. This is an easy case of following the money right to the tradeshow in DC and the personalities at the event -- which makes my case.In order to cut waste, the pentagon must allow for full and open competition for all basic supplies, including most weapons and accessories. This new acquisition process for sourcing basic supplies is for all active duty members with assigned credit lines that apply for gear only. This new online ordering system will ensure the purchase of items that are needed and in budget since all ordering will be out-side the control of the existing acquisition system. Competition will place DoD on a diet, if they like it or not.THE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY OF THE MILITEC PLANThe Militec Plan will reduce hundreds of billions in Defense spending programs by enforcement of the Defense Streamlining Acquisition Act of 1994 -- that was signed into Law by President Clinton. I witnessed the Rose Garden signing because I believed that this new Law would open up competitive markets.For the sake of America; Congress must enforce the 1994 law while adopting the lessons learned from America’s Manufacturing Genius during the Second World War, where the U.S. Manufacturing base was vital to our National Security and was called upon for the development and production of a wide variety of products to fulfill this wartime demand. The Singer Sewing Machine Company (as example) did a great job building weapons for the Military, even though they never built them before.Since we are in a financial crisis, allowing out-sourcing through full and open competition will not only eliminate redundancies, it will eliminate the need (for hundreds of thousands of) federal workers (mostly DoD) and its associated billion dollar programs that will be replaced by the private sector.There are five basic points:1. Enforce the Defense Streamlining Acquisition Act of 19942. Allow military members to order their basic gear online3. Allow the free market to decide which products work the best.4. One-shoe (product) does not fit all sizes anymore as it has for the past 100 years.5. Milspec management by career bureaucrats for the past three decades has resulted in constant upgrades to the M16/M4 (and they still jam) and its CLP gun oil (still has a 149 degree F. flashpoint-and vapors catch fire) versus allowing a better mouse trap that competition and the enforcement of the Defense Streamlining Acquisition Act will provide.I could go on forever about the problems with constant upgrades to the gear the average soldier carries and the billions in wasted redundancies by the services. The Army Labs will show off their expensive and redundant facilities and all their neat stuff costing billions in R&D/T&E costs that never reach the rank and file. Plus, in the past 10 years there has been no new technology that was delivered in advance of when it was needed (different armor for example). Sure the MRAPS finally made it and the up-armored Hummers and enhanced vests -- after allot of dead soldiers.Now, the troops are receiving the proper camouflage pattern on their uniforms that will better hide them from the enemy. Are you kidding me? It took 10 years to get a uniform that blends into the environment of Afghanistan? This simple point here makes my other points on why competition is needed -- to help save America from itself.Please read the attached Militec Plan that will save (just) the DoD hundreds of billions while at the same time creating millions of new and diverse jobs. Full and open competition is what made America the leader of the free world. Now, our position is threatened and will be forever changed unless bold action is taken now by the simple enforcement of the (Law) Defense Streamlining Act of 1994.
THE MILITEC PLAN TO SAVE DOD HUNDREDS OF BILLIONSThe time is now for American business to compete for federal programs by allowing military customers choices on what products best fit their needs for their specific assignment, versus being issued gear that does not work properly, or is not needed. Each warfighter would have their own credit limit and would use the internet to order the majority of their gear through approved websites. The Defense Streamlining Acquisition Act was signed into law in 1994 that allows for the use of “commercial- off- the- self- technology” products (COTS) to be purchased and used, without regard to Milspec. This law has not been enforced, since the federal workers did not want to see full and open competition for commercially and industrially approved products that compete for their own jobs elimination. This plan will not have to cut any programs, since competition by the private sector will cause the evaporation of federal—work—programs that are not needed and the layers of redundancies that are driven by turf wars --chasing dollars--disappears since the customer is now the warfighter ordering and using products outside the control of the military civilians and their revolving door which ensures nothing changes.The large activities such as DLA, AMC, arsenals, and bases could have their workforce reduced 75% since the private sector would absorb the work (and some workforce too) and the remaining 25% of the employees would work from their homes and at the contractor’s facility. The majority of the remaining work would require accounting skills since invoices will be submitted by American business that is responsible for the cradle to grave aspects of the supplied technology. It’s the contractor’s responsibility to insure the goods are received by the customer and are in working condition, prior to submitting the invoice for payment to “the new defense accounting agency”. The individual services would not be involved in this accounting or purchasing process. This will stop redundancies by the services.
The government would turn over control (for a price-over time) of the arsenals and bases to American business and it would be the American’s that would rebuild our economy (versus Wal-Mart) and create millions of new U.S. jobs. The land, hardware and the buildings would be worth trillions for the private sectors benefit and hundreds of billions would also be saved by the evaporation of the federal work force over-time. The other significant cost saving is to allow certain federal employees to work from home.Hundreds of government programs and its federal workforce would evaporate since there’s no longer a demand for their product and/or service. Private sector jobs would soar due to closed markets being made available to American business for the first time and by the USG placing the private sector in charge of inventing, warehousing and distribution of the majority of its products and services. Another big advantage is allowing the troops to perform the necessary field testing of products -- at a cheaper price than USG labs and the testing would be in the actual environment (which prevents abuse) than simulation- make-work- testing and all of its bells and whistles (ensuring all the money is spent) inside a controlled laboratory environment surrounded by career bureaucrats. These same bureaucrats have counter-parts in every service so the wasteful (system wide) redundancies will also evaporate over time.This artificial and simulation testing that keep thousands employed are seldom neutral, since jobs and military specifications and designs depends on planned outcomes of their in-house and mostly private testing. No secret. The USG is famous at trying to improve the current technology by upgrades, which keeps the same folks in the same place, instead of using a better mouse trap that competition (COTS) will provide. Competition will allow for the best products to be used and the warfighter will have the right products when they need it.The way to reduce trillions in unneeded spending is by allowing for full and open competition — a win-win for everyone, since we all should agree that competition is what made America Great. The USG needs to enforce the Defense Streamlining Acquisition Act. Full and open competition will decide the winners and losers of products and allows for the evaporation of unnecessary and redundant federal programs that encourage in-sourcing (making government bigger) versus, out-sourcing which reduces the size of government and creates jobs in the private sector.Thank you for reading the Militec plan.
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