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<text id=90TT2653>
<title>
Oct. 08, 1990: Business Notes:Defense Contracts
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Oct. 08, 1990 Do We Care About Our Kids?
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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BUSINESS, Page 66
Business Notes
DEFENSE CONTRACTORS
It's Defective? Buy More!
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<body>
<p> Despite its efficiency in carrying out Operation Desert
Shield, the Pentagon is a paper tiger when it comes to
penalizing its contractors for fraud and other crimes. Just last
February Northrop pleaded guilty to 34 counts of falsifying test
results on key parts for cruise missiles and AV-8B Harrier jump
jets. In part because of those abuses, the Pentagon banned the
company from receiving new contracts. But the Defense Department
disclosed last week that it has waived the ban to allow the Navy
to buy 104 more Harrier gyroscopes (total price: $300,000),
which are made only by Northrop. Because the gyroscopes last
only about two-thirds as long as promised, the Navy has been
grounding the planes. At least 10 of the jets are now stationed
in the Persian Gulf. Says John Conyers of Michigan, chairman of
the House Government Operations Committee: "Northrop is a case
study in botched Pentagon procurement."
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