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Return to Article: Druyun scandal may lead to more vacancies at the Pentagon

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  As is becoming obvious, Druyun's "problems" predated her search for employment. Sure you could say her earlier games were generalized to curry favor with the big contractors so she could eventually get a good job with one of them but more likely they had other reasons and causes.

  One reason is that she was willing to bend rules in exchange for political support when some General wanted to fire her. She got them fired! How? Because people "above the Generals" overrode the Generals. This means political apppointees or the Administration. I think this is the main reason and a detailed look at how she quashed her many critics is absolutely necessary. Many in Congress were afraid of her power.

  A secondary reason was that she was an "acquirer" in position but actually a contracting specialist. It is equivalent to having a mechanic called a "pilot" because he starts the aircraft! Contract specialists see every problem as a contracting opportunity while acquisition people look at the requirements and decide whether a "make or buy" will happen. Druyun presided over a massive outsourcing because she saw everything as a contract, and one she wanted to "simplify" by removing that pesky competition stuff. Removing competition and buying support from the OEM are inherently incestuous.

  GovExec.com reader Posted February 18, 2005 1:20 PM
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  What will it take for the Air Force to learn? Ms Druyun was able to operate in a criminal manner and cost the US taxpayers billions of dollars, in large measure because she operated without adult supervision. General Martin, her previous boss had no experience in acquisition when he was overseeing her. So who do they put into the office now? According to the Air Force, (http://www.af.mil ) Lt Gen Corley will be overseeing the day to day operations of the service's acquisition community. His background in acquisition? None. Folks may want to quibble and say that his 20 months in the Center for Studies and Analysis were acquisition, but that is not true. According to his official bio he was chief analyst without ever having been an analyst prior, so that was not acquisition. He did not work with Cost, Schedule, and Performance concerns. He did not deal with acquisition contract. Office work, yes, important stuff, yeah. But just not acquisition. Hey Air Force. How about it? Try putting someone into the office that knows something about the job. I don't think that you would put in a flying wing commander who had never flown an aircraft, so why are those offices involved with billions of dollars and the future of the service open to those without expertise?

  GovExec.com reader Posted January 25, 2005 8:53 AM
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  She is a typical government bureaucrat who is nothing less than a thief. Kids are dying everyday in Iraq while this scum is allowed to fat-cat it in a safe government job. Look at what happened to the VA regional office in Atlanta, Georgia where a supervisor and two of her co-horts embezzled over two million dollars before they were caught. Senator Chuck Grassley has been asked to look into this but no responses are received and no indictments handed down the last I heard.

  GovExec.com reader Posted January 18, 2005 4:57 PM
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  She was just the typical crook in the government so nothing else is really new. Before it is done, we have to pay her damages for sending her to jail. Wait until the lawyers step in and we will be ripped off again.

  Rodney Posted January 16, 2005 8:25 PM
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  As a person retired from both the USAF and Boeing, thank you Senator McCain for forcing integrity (hopefully) into the modern world of big business.

  Rick Posted January 13, 2005 4:02 PM
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  WHY WAIT FOR THE CROOKS TO LEAVE?!?!??!?! THEY ALL SHOULD HAVE BEEN FIRED, PROSECUTED AND SENTENCED BY NOW!!!!!!!

  A'76'd Career Federal Employee Posted January 13, 2005 2:50 PM
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  Nine months is a joke. The lady should be doing 10 to 20. I do not believe that she is the only one responsible. Keep her in jail until she talks. Thank heaven for Senator McCain. He is a great American.

  GovExec.com reader Posted January 13, 2005 12:58 PM
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  This lady stole billions from us taxpayers and gets nine months in Florida? Martha lied and got six and that didn't cost the taxpayer anything - in fact she probably paid income tax on the ill gotten gains. Doesn't seem fair to me and is not a big stick to prevent government employees from stealing from the taxpayer in the future. The courts are crazy and lawyers have no ethical standards. This lady should be in jail for a minimum of ten years, not nine months! Also, she should give back the money she stole by forfiting her social security (if any) and government pension (in total). Take her house, car, boats, furs, and anything else of value and do not allow her to qualify for the government health care program after retirement. This entire matter has been handled in the worst possible way and is not going to stop future problems. All the people listed in the article as going were going anyway for the most part. Roche tried to become Secy of the Army and was turned down. The list covers political appointees and not government civil servasnts and the writer should make that clear! Political appointees generally go anyway in 18 months so whats the big deal? No one in government is being punished for this gigantic crime! What a coverup!

  taxpayer Posted January 13, 2005 7:41 AM