{"id":393,"date":"2008-09-21T15:04:36","date_gmt":"2008-09-21T19:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/?p=393"},"modified":"2015-12-17T13:22:39","modified_gmt":"2015-12-17T17:22:39","slug":"ministry-of-defense-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/?p=393","title":{"rendered":"Ministry of Defense &#8211; UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following entry is a record in the \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/?page_id=3\"><span style=\"color: #0070c5;\">Catalogue of Catastrophe<\/span><\/a>\u201d &#8211;\u00a0a list of failed and troubled projects from around the world.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Ministry of Defense &#8211; UK<br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Project :<\/strong> Chinook Helicopter upgrade<br \/>\n<strong>Date :<\/strong> Jun 2008<strong> Cost :<\/strong> $1,000M USD<\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis :<\/strong><br \/>\nProblems with cockpit software leave 8 Chinook helicopters intended for \u201cspecials ops\u201d grounded after 7 years of effort.\u00a0 Maintained in special air conditioned hangers, the aircraft have never seen operational use.\u00a0 Although the helicopters can fly, they can only safely be operated <em>&#8220;above 500 feet on cloudless days&#8221;<\/em>.\u00a0 How the helicopters get up to 500 feet in order to start flying safely is not revealed.\u00a0 Failure to deliver the helicopters for operational use leaves a critical gap in the British military capability in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, the fleet was grounded because the contract with the vendor \u201cdid not specify that software documentation and codes for avionics systems should be analyzed in accordance with UK Defense Standards\u201d. Efforts to correct the situation abandoned and helicopters converted back to regular operations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contributing factors as reported in the press :<\/strong><br \/>\nFailure to adhere to appropriate standards for documentation and project management. Poor procurement processes that failed to specify that UK airworthiness standards required the vendor to release the source code for verification as part of the certification process.\u00a0 Shifting operational missions combined with slow progress rendered certain key strategic decisions worthless resulting in project resets.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reference links :<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nao.org.uk\/publications\/nao_reports\/07-08\/0708512.pdf\">National Audit Office &#8211; Chinook Mk3 Helicopters<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk\/7434205.stm\">MoD accused of Chinook \u2018cock-up\u2019 <\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.computing.co.uk\/computing\/news\/2218437\/chinook-costs-rocket-500m\">Grounded Chinook costs rocket to \u00a3500m <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following entry is a record in the \u201cCatalogue of Catastrophe\u201d &#8211;\u00a0a list of failed and troubled projects from around the world. Ministry of Defense &#8211; UK Project : Chinook Helicopter upgrade Date : Jun 2008 Cost : $1,000M USD Synopsis : Problems with cockpit software leave 8 Chinook helicopters intended for \u201cspecials ops\u201d grounded after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,3],"tags":[130,131,129,93,147],"class_list":["post-393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-military-project","category-failed-project","tag-government","tag-military-project","tag-failed-project","tag-why-do-projects-fail","tag-why-projects-fail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=393"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7856,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions\/7856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calleam.com\/WTPF\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}