Amid the ongoing fallout from two recent fatal crashes involving aviation giant Boeing’s 737 Max 8, the Department of Defense’s (DoD) Inspector General has begun an inquiry into its acting chief, Patrick Shanahan.
Amid the ongoing fallout from two recent fatal crashes involving aviation giant Boeing’s 737 Max 8, the Department of Defense’s Inspector General has begun an inquiry into its acting chief, Patrick Shanahan.
“In private remarks he made since then at DoD, Mr. Shanahan reportedly praised Boeing in discussions about government contracts, said that Boeing would have done much better than its competitor Lockheed Martin had it been awarded a fighter jet contract, and repeatedly ‘dumped on’ the jet Lockheed produced,” alleged the letter sent to Acting DoD Inspector General Glenn A. Fine.
"Am I still wearing a Boeing hat? I think that's just noise," Shanahan said in January. “I am biased toward performance. 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.”
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