geo said:
from the french version of this thread.....
I said :
Though I am not part of the supply chain, it should not take the time you claim. 12 months is ridiculous.
In the same way we order our name tags and get them within 6 weeks, there is no reason for it to take longer.
It is time for your unit to talk to 35 CBGs G4 and light a fire in the right place.
Nametags are already on a contract though ... and that's the big difference.
But it would take this amount of time in this case. As it is a new flash, the contract to provide would have to be newly written. The specs done up, the contract amendment put into place and staffed through PWGSC ... and then agreed to by the contractor, and then staffed back down through PWGSC ...
Now, of course, if we could predict all the future names & name changes of Units, & what they will be called in the future ... we could add them all onto the contract call with one amendment ... but we can't.
The current contract calls for the contractor to provide "10 EG" flashs, not "35 RGC" flashs. If the CF wants them, the CF is going to have to play the game and amend that contract through PWGSC ... because, as it stands now, the contractor is obligated to provide ZERO in the way of "35 RGC" flashs, legally & IAW their current contract. They ARE complying with their contract obligations ... we want to change 'em, we get to ante up any PAY for that to happen (ie: the taxpayer -- contract amendments/cancellation fees are worth much money to the contractor -- that's why they all want that federal contract -- amendments/cancellations are where they make their big bucks!! Witness EH101/or even the cancellation of the requirement to provide that "10 EG" flash...) ... and that takes Adm time to do, especially when the CF does not do this on it's own but rather it must go through PWGSC.
Lighting a fire under 35 Bge's G4 won't make it happen any quicker because the only step the CF does is to write up the requirement for the new flash (& I suspect after one year this has already been done months & months ago...) ... the rest is outside of the CFs hands and authority to action. Ergo, the ability to go to the SM to ask for a national fin coding to pay for an LPO of the item while the contract amendment works it's way through the federal system.
Witness how long it took for the new Base CWO, Command CWO, CF CWO isignia to come into the system ... and those boys/girls are quite capable of lighting fires...