DCA - American Airlines passenger plane collides with Blackhawk over the Potomac River, all 67 on both dead, 29 Jan 2025 #2

[Betty P]

Competency and success exceeds competitive bidding. Verizon had their chance an failed. A cell phone company, they have no experience or expertise in designing an FAA system. Millions of citizens from all countries fly in the US on a daily basis, human life is more important than competitive bidding. We're in dire straits with our air traffic control system.
Moo

You can have both. There’s no reason our government should hand out no bid contracts to friends of our elected officials, especially when they spend billions of dollars to help them get elected. It’s not just unethical, it’s illegal.

 

[Simply Southern]

Why have we not heard from Verizon? They've held a 2+BILLION dollar contract since 2023? Where are that at in the design process? Hoping a Congressional hearing to hear where they are in the process. Surely, the contract contained accountability standards/requirements.

We're having to shut down airports, reroute planes, have air traffic controllers out on stress leave, somethings got to give we're in an aviation crisis. Airlines and privately managed airports don't want to reduce flights due to revenue loss.


I believe in contract bidding, however, many times we are throwing billions of dollars to companies that never achieved the contract requirements, and leave us hanging at the end of the day.

An example ..... We heavily invested Billions in Boeing to design and create a vehicle to shuttle to the international space station. Currently, SpaceX and Russia are the only providers. Let's not forget, Boeing left our astronauts trapped in space for an extended period of time. Who rescued our astronauts...SpaceX. Boeing has since canceled their space program.

In 2018, Boeing was awarded a contract for two new Air Force One, with a delivery date of 2022. After billions in overrun cost, they now project 2027, maybe. Yeah, we'll be buying parts off of eBay here soon, the current Air Force One was built in 1987 !!!

Something's got to give on these government contracts. We keep doing business with companies that failed to meet contract requirements with no accountability, financial penalty, leaving US citizens on the hook for billions.

All my opinion.....

NASA says astronauts stuck in space will not return on Boeing capsule, will wait for SpaceX craft

The Starliner drama has been a major setback for Boeing’s space ambitions, adding to years of struggle to get the capsule off the ground and keep up with rival company SpaceX.

www.nbcnews.com

https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/08/business/boeing-trump-air-force-one