I don’t know your background but what the website describes is pretty strait forward Scientific, Engineering, Technical and Analytical (SETA) support to a government PM shop. They say in the article that they do logistics for an entity doing missile defense tests. That is either MDA, the Navy or the Army. Logistical SETA support covers management of all of the domains of logistics — they could be managing the shipping and handling of targets or sensors or interceptors; or something more mundane then that like manuals.

As to the fact they have no jobs listed as a 17 person company they are probably cherry picking who they want to hire as the task grows.

$4 million in missile defense R&D is a drop in the bucket where one test could cost you $40 million.

The issue isn’t the contract but Murtha’s actions.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/05/05/maverick-dhs-office-issues-dictionary-domestic-extremist-groups/

You defended the rightwing extremist report as being reasonable given it’s intent. And yet Napolitano apologizes for it and admits the language was not appropriate. Then, you completely ignore the next report that comes out that proves beyond reasonable doubt that somebody has gone haywire in HSD writing these things. And then also fail to cover it’s withdrawal, and admission from HSD that they have a “maverick” dept issuing these things that they need to reign in.

He literally aided and abetted the enemy with his ignorant premature bluster regarding Haditha, and he’s yet to really apologize AFAIK.

Anything and anyone related to him should automatically be suspect, IMHO.

Assuming there’s nothing improper here however, and of course it would probably be lost on him — I wonder how he feels about he and his nephew getting wrongly accused of something prematurely by people who don’t really have all the facts and are just trying to score political points. — ????

I don’t know. If nothing is there to implicate any criminal or ethical issues I would rather the news media not even publish an article about it. However, anytime deals are made that involves a politician’s family member, a closer look is warranted.

And, anything having to do with Murtha should be looked at closely. That guy is unethical and corrupt.

I’m not sure why a project management team would need warehousing, and obviously they don’t according to the WaPo which says no trucks visit their loading docks.

I think it’s safe to say their only function is to dispose of 4 million dollars of taxpayers money with zip accountability.
How convenient to say that their function is ‘classified’ so they can’t talk about it. I’m sure it’s not so much the ‘classified’ that keeps them from discussing it nearly so much as the embarrassment of trying to describe exactly what it is they do.

The web site uses all the right buzz words to sound important while not really saying anything.

I would defy anyone to read the description on that site and tell me what it is that they do..

yeah, it’s classified all right.

The issue is not that Murtech is making illegal profits off of its one contract but how it came to get it. It is not too difficult a stretch to imagine a contract being given to them due to their relationship to Congressman Murtha. Heck, in the Air Force, we had a PE that Senator Byrd funded directly for work in West Virginia. There was not discussion of what it was for he just did it. Earmarks are wonderful in that way.

Murtha hasn’t done anything illegal that we know off as he hasn’t been as blatant as Randy Cunningham for example, but he is certainly unethical and misusing government funds. This contract may be the same, it may not be. I think Mr. Strata is a little overwrought in this protests, but as with the PMA issue it will slowly build and maybe nothing will come of it in the end, but maybe something will.

I am sorry, but any time some member of Congress, especially one with Murtha’s shady background, awards no bids contracts to family members you gotta wonder.

Just look at the crap Cheney and Bush took over Halliburton and Cheney was not even connected with the company anymore. Did that hurt Democrats to go after Cheney? No…well then, what can you expect?

Sounds reasonable.

I guess being classified means you can tell anyone what you do. That’s not what it used to mean.

they store and deploy sensors to detect WMDs.

I do have experience in the political arena. Man of many talents.

Good luck on the FAR – I hate that thing.

4 Don’t answer the foolish arguments of fools,
or you will become as foolish as they are.

5 Be sure to answer the foolish arguments of fools,
or they will become wise in their own estimation.

You are correct in that some have gone from Proverbs 26:5 into Proverbs 26:4. Reports that target (for political purposes) conservatives are not representative of those who are on the ground doing the actual job.

The problem is limited to those who lack the due diligence to write a factual report and those who would use nonfactual reports against patriots. A non foolish answer is the report is wrong and offensive – Go back and fix it. A foolish answer is that they who serve in the government are all against us – No that is not factual either and it is offensive, Go back and fix it.

Your posts today make a valid point — those of us who don’t have a good understanding of federal contracting may be out of our league in commenting on the process — although right now my eyes are crossed from reviewing/interpreting a section of the FARs for a client,

Actually, that’s the same point I tried to make yesterday re: your lack of understanding and experience in matters of political analysis. If you expect us to defer to you on your areas of expertise, kindly show a little more respect to those of us who do know something about, and have some real-world experience in that arena.

Every small business/contractor that is going to make it gets a huge windfall once (how else do they leap to the next level?). I went with a company that had 7 employees. Part way through I won a contract to build their satellite control center. The value of that one contract was around $2.5 million, was the largest award they ever had and tripled the staff (mostly under me).

No one in their right mind would risk prison over the meager margins (4-6%) you can get off these contracts.

Folks, you are really not impressive today.

Please stop. You are no Sherlock Holmes, clearly. Think about what they do, they store and deploy sensors to detect WMDs. If you can’t figure out what that entails stop guessing and looking the fool.

I will not tell you since I (a) could care less about your ignorance and (b) will not expose information in public – even if has some accurate conjecture in it. And yes, I have much more than a clue what that work entails, which is tons more than you have.