Pentagon weapons test report harder to get since 9/11

By Nick Schwellenbach

How well do the Pentagon’s costly and complex weapons work? It’s more difficult to find out now that an annual evaluation report is no long

Excerpts from this story referencing "Tom Christie":

"… rt, the thinking was, why advertise that our weapons don’t work,” said Tom Christie, who was director of the test office from July 2001 through January 2005. …"

Pentagon contract reform: A decades-old conversation

By Nick Schwellenbach

President Obama told us last week that "the days of giving defense contractors a blank check are over.” Well, maybe. Reforming Pentagon cont

Excerpts from this story referencing "Tom Christie":

"… hambles, given all the silly, trivial changes made over the years,” said Tom Christie, a former Pentagon senior official, who was in charge of testing and evalu …"

Will the $55 billion bomber program fly?

By David Axe

The pricetag is at least $55 billion, the design is unsettled and the mission is controversial.

Excerpts from this story referencing "Tom Christie":

"… ancelled an earlier attempt to build a new bomber. One of the skeptics is Tom Christie, the Pentagon’s chief weapons tester from 2001 until his retirement in 2 …"