The Government Accountability Office is often the governmental body that is entrusted with double-checking contracts and ferreting out irregularities in government operations, but a GAO employee is now blowing his own whistle at his bosses. Subrata Ghoshroy, a GAO analyst, claims he and members of his team collaborated with defense contractors in skewing data for a $26 billion Missile Defense Agency anti ballistic missile program. Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.) and Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) have just released a 41-page letter from Ghoshroy, who was lead technical analyst on the study commissioned by the two lawmakers. They now want an investigation of the investigators.
Sustainment of the F-35 is rapidly becoming the most profitable part of the program, as growing numbers of jets, bases and depots drive a greater demand for parts and services, top Lockheed Martin officials said in an April 20 corporate earnings call. The comments come against a backdrop of criticism…