False Claim of Production Source. A major company was unsucc…
False Claim of Production Source. A major company was unsuccessful in bidding on a complex gyroscopic control system for a military aircraft. Using strong political connections with the White House, they forced a Pentagon level review of the evaluation. The proposal claimed all portions of the system were produced in company facilities. On a visit to one of the qualified suppliers of Rate Switching Gyros, Air Force personnel had witnessed production of units with name plates of the major supplier. The qualified supplier was a very small company. Is it ethical for a company to subcontract equipment and then claim in a proposal that it is produced in house? Where is the line drawn between a typical purchased subassembly which goes into a larger product?
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Systems Engineers shall strive to be objective and truthful in professional reports, statements or testimony, with primary consideration for the best interests of the engineers’ clients or employers. The engineers’ reports shall include all relevant and pertinent information in such reports, statements, or testimony, which shall bear the date on which the engineers were retained by the clients to prepare the reports.
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