Some Serious Paper Shredding at the F-35 Program Office [View all]

http://www.nextgov.com/defense/whats-brewin/2013/04/some-serious-paper-shredding-f-35-program-office/62214/

Some Serious Paper Shredding at the F-35 Program Office

Paper shredding contracts get lumped in with widgets, gadgets and gizmos on the Federal Business Opportunities website, and over the years a fair number have passed by my eyeballs. (I know, I should get a life.)

I usually don’t pay much attention to shredding solicitations, except to marvel at how many agencies still need such an old fashioned service in the digital age.

The March 28 shredding services procurement from the F-35 Joint Program Office stands out for its detailed and lengthy requirements. It also serves as a metaphor for the flawed, delayed and over-budget project to build 2,500 aircraft for all four military services, which started in 1996 and won’t deliver a combat ready plane until 2019.

Paper or document shredding is a plain vanilla service, far easier than development of a tail hook for the Navy version of the F-35, but the folks at the Joint Program Office put out a 12-page statement of work for such a simple service. The statement starts out with what amounts to an ode to the F-35, touting “cutting-edge technologies” including “advanced airframe, autonomic logistics, avionics, (and) propulsion systems.”



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