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Friday, May 29, 2009

Northrop Grumman Inspector's Lies Raise Alarms

USS North Carolina (SSN 777)More than 10,000 welded joints on at least eight U.S. submarines and a new aircraft carrier might need to be reinspected after the discovery by Northrop Grumman Shipbuilding that one of its inspectors had falsified inspection reports.

According to an internal report obtained by Defense News, the issue came to light May 14 when a welding inspector at the company's Newport News, Va., shipyard told a supervisor that a fellow inspector was initialing welds as OK without actually performing the inspections.

Confronted by the supervisor, the offending inspector admitted to falsifying three weld inspections, all that same day.

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1 comment:

  1. Pete4/6/09 17:10

    Sounds almost like sabotage. I suppose double checking, as a standard procedure, is out of the question?

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