• Pat Flood (@rebarcock) passed away 9/21/25. Pat played a huge role in encouraging the devolopmemt of this site and donated the very first dollar to get it started. Check the thread at the top of the board for the obituary and please feel free to pay your respects there. I am going to get all the content from that thread over to his family so they can see how many people really cared for Pat outside of what they ever knew. Pat loved to tell stories and always wanted everyone else to tell stories. I think a great way we can honor Pat is to tell a story in his thread (also pinned at the top of the board).

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Great post, not by me, but someone should sit the Executive Branch down and teach them about congressional budgets, acquisition law (unbelievably cumbersome) and sub-supplier timelines. Subs aren’t making stuff because of varying budgets and multi year buys are extremely uncommon.

Back in the 90's and early 2000's I was working with a Lockheed Martin division that was largely financed by DOE and DOD. Many times to procure a product the buyer had to follow guidelines of these two departments, all well and good except often they would have conflicting requirements. They had to meet certain recycled/minority/ and who knows what else stipulations. The hoops they would have to jump through, the wink winks, and Quid pro quo's would eventually allow us to get things done. But costly and time wasting.

And since it was a nuclear facility with the Navy, and percentage buys were by the dollar, we really had to dig to help them out as there isn't much diversity/recycled in nuclear and reactor product purchases
 
Back in the 90's and early 2000's I was working with a Lockheed Martin division that was largely financed by DOE and DOD. Many times to procure a product the buyer had to follow guidelines of these two departments, all well and good except often they would have conflicting requirements. They had to meet certain recycled/minority/ and who knows what else stipulations. The hoops they would have to jump through, the wink winks, and Quid pro quo's would eventually allow us to get things done. But costly and time wasting.

And since it was a nuclear facility with the Navy, and percentage buys were by the dollar, we really had to dig to help them out as there isn't much diversity/recycled in nuclear and reactor product purchases
Look no farther than the zealots and idiots enacting conflicting regulations not for the good of the products and services required, but, for non-workable personal political beliefs. I.e., recycling nuclear waste or thinking providers have product aisles at HDepot and Lowes.
 

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