Monday, November 21, 2005

 

The Lies of Joann Kansier

As mentioned before, Joanne Kansier is the head of the FAA’s competitive sourcing office. She was responsible for managing the process that eventually led to the Lockheed Martin contract for Flight Services. Her efforts were viewed positively by a magazine called Washington Technology when they handed out what they call the Greater Washington Government Contractors awards. You can read about the Public Sector Partner of the Year award they gave her here.

Noteworthy in her comments was the following:

She worked with contractors and the FAA’s human resources department to create
an attractive benefits package for FAA employees who transitioned to Lockheed
Martin.

“I did everything I could for our employees,” she said.
Of course she did nothing of the sort. Regular readers of this blog have seen our recitation of the ignored requirements that are set upon government when employees are about to be RIFed, and we’re not inclined to reitereate them all here. We will say again that Ms. Kansier probably violated article 3350.2c (requiring her to put RIFed controllers in jobs they're qualified for) because she knew her efforts would fail if she did not shepard Flight Service controllers into the contractor’s arms; there was no other place for Lockheed to obtain a workforce.

The obfuscations do not end there, however:

Kansier’s office has now turned its attention to overseeing the contract. She
describes it as a win-win for government and the pilots who rely on the
automated flight service stations. The government saves money, the pilots get
better service, she said.
This assumes that everything will go as planned. So far, it’s not. Promised improvements to technology is slipping behind schedule, and the cost savings continue to be pushed lower. Pilots are still being served in the same manner as they were before the contract, and that is likely to continue beyond 2006.

The article mentions that on the day that the controllers were fired and Lockheed began it’s slippery slide down a list of broken promises, Ms. Kansier’s husband sent her flowers. We can’t help but wonder what the spouses of the Enron executives did for them when the company declared bankruptcy.

Comments:
Her husband should have taken her to the DC Zoo, to watch how other animals screw.
 
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