GSA Contracts
Sneaking around in order databases and spying on our manufacturing operation in Malaysia has been relatively easy. Thanks to a few employees who have given me their account logins I have been able to identify numerous customer orders from various branches of the US military. I know which service has purchased specific kinds of products, each instrument serial number, and the expected shipment date. With this information I simply watch for each unit serial number to appear as work in progress at our Malaysia factory. Keeping in mind only 49% of each US Government rated order can be manufactured in Malaysia I should observe very little assembly work being performed on these boxes there. They should be spending most of their time in the testing process. However if I see that these units are being built from scratch and going all the way through the process then being re-serialized as a Singapore built unit then I know for sure our overseas divisions are up to no good.
My plan is to gather a minimum six months worth of hard evidence if we are in fact breaking federal laws. That way nobody in our corporate offices can claim ignorance or say "Oops. We made a mistake there sorry Uncle Sam." I want those fuckers to burn.
Unfortunately due to a colossal amount of incompetence at various US Government agencies including the DoD Inspector General's office, I haven't been able to get a yes or no answer to a straightforward question. Is it illegal under current federal laws for our company to be producing instruments for the military at our Malaysia factory? I haven't been able to find out, so I might be wasting my time.
For every kind of product and service we provide to the US Government we must have a contract that specifically states the rules on what we can and cannot do. We literally have thousands of different kinds of electronic test and measurement instruments that are used for Radar Surveillance, Electronic Warfare, Homeland Security, and Signals Acquisition (interception and eavesdropping). So that means every model of product has to have a government contract for how we manufacture it and a separate contract with the government for providing repair and servicing of that product. These contracts are called General Services Administration Contracts (GSA). When I get home from work each night I have been looking up and reading through our GSA contracts. They're a nightmare of legal gibberish. Each of our contracts are generally about 80 pages in length and so far I haven't been able to find anything in them concerning countries that are off limits for building government rated orders. It's been a tiresome pain in the ass.
My plan is to gather a minimum six months worth of hard evidence if we are in fact breaking federal laws. That way nobody in our corporate offices can claim ignorance or say "Oops. We made a mistake there sorry Uncle Sam." I want those fuckers to burn.
Unfortunately due to a colossal amount of incompetence at various US Government agencies including the DoD Inspector General's office, I haven't been able to get a yes or no answer to a straightforward question. Is it illegal under current federal laws for our company to be producing instruments for the military at our Malaysia factory? I haven't been able to find out, so I might be wasting my time.
For every kind of product and service we provide to the US Government we must have a contract that specifically states the rules on what we can and cannot do. We literally have thousands of different kinds of electronic test and measurement instruments that are used for Radar Surveillance, Electronic Warfare, Homeland Security, and Signals Acquisition (interception and eavesdropping). So that means every model of product has to have a government contract for how we manufacture it and a separate contract with the government for providing repair and servicing of that product. These contracts are called General Services Administration Contracts (GSA). When I get home from work each night I have been looking up and reading through our GSA contracts. They're a nightmare of legal gibberish. Each of our contracts are generally about 80 pages in length and so far I haven't been able to find anything in them concerning countries that are off limits for building government rated orders. It's been a tiresome pain in the ass.
posted by factory_peasant at 10:04 AM
7 Comments:
Boomer,
Anthony R. has requested that anyone still reading that July 2006 200+ comment string bring to your attention that he would like to continue contact with you, only this time as friends and maybe swapping beer recipes? Something like that. He asked that someone bring to your attention that he's still posting there.
I'm posting this as a neutral messenger.
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ok,
i will let boomer know.
you mufukas is crazy!!!
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Yikes... are you sure you want to go through with this? This seems... dangerous.
spared- yes, there were real risks involved. at a minimum i would have lost my job had i been caught. however i wasn't cool with military products possibly being degraded or compromised. the workmanship in our overseas divisions was questionable. if branches of military service received units that were defective and malfunctioned prematurely people could have been killed. trying to prevent this from happening was worth losing my job over, don't you think?
what would you have done if you were in a similar situation?
there is also an issue of transferring technology to potential enemy countries and closing the technology gap. i'll get into this aspect of offshoring soon.
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