as much as i didnt like him being president, i thought he did very well in arms acquisition. i knew the first WHEC was arroyo's and i thought the other 2 was his initiative. so as the whole fa-50 package, the aw-109's, the BRP tarlac, the W3's, the pohang and the incheon (when delivered). what acquisition did he miss? i thought mamapasano was the only miitary/police failure he got. forgive my ignorance. thank u for the reply(s). did he just got the glory in modernizing of the AFP?
As stated earlier, the W-3 was not PNoy. The Notice of Award was actually issued in 2009 by Norberto Gonzales, Arroyo's final SND. These were accepted during PNoy's time, but he then he acquired yet another CUH in the form of the Bell 412, which now puts the future of the W-3 in doubt.
PNoy's problems lay in the fact that he nuked the DND acquisition staff when he entered office. While there were problematic acquisition professionals in the DND (including the "patron saint of failed bidders"), instead of being thoughtful about which officials to fire and which ones to retain, he just cleaned house. Threw the baby with the bathwater, and wiped out any institutional knowledge that existing in the DND.
Contrast this with Duterte's current approach of reducing disruptions to ensure continuity.
That knowledge is actually the foundation for whatever PNoy eventually bought. But without the original people who actually did the work . . . this led to glacially slow pace of acquisitions that resulted on projects only being completed either in the final weeks of PNoy's term instead of mid-stream. All because his people didn't know what they were doing, and completely missed the lessons learned working with the GPPB.
Thanks to the Defense System of Management (DSOM), the drafting of policies that gave the AFP access to Malampaya funding for acquisitions, and completion of guidelines for the crafting of Multi-Year Obligational Authority (MYOA) -- all of which were Arroyo era developments that PNoy's staff had no clue how to use -- a whole slew of projects could have been completed much much early. Looong before China change the situation on the ground with its island building.
The poster child for how inexperienced staff can fumble a touch down was the Maestrale deal. The ship was chosen. The deal was in the offing. Then a bad decision with regard to the selection of the USCGC Dallas, which was bought without an engine hence a delay of more than a year, soured PNoy's rookie staff on the idea of 2nd-hand equipment. Again . . . baby with the bathwater . . . bye-bye Maestrale. (Other rumors of lobbying are hard to validate, so I will leave those off the discussion).
Now the Frigate purchase is in Duterte's hands, and those reportedly isn't slated to arrive any sooner than 2020. The image below could have been a reality long before 2016.
Credit to 40niner for finding this photo first. A glimpse of what could have been had plans followed through. Unlike the USCG WHECs, the Maestrales were true shooters
The following article shows how close we got. VADM Pama even went so far as to confirm to Congress that a ship had already been selected.
Remember the failed Fennec attack helicopter acquisition that DND officials simply couldn't close because they couldn't explain to the GPPB how the regulations worked out in the past administration would have justified their acquisition?
http://adroth.ph/tag/attack-helicopter/A lot of things happened during the PNoy administration. But not nearly as much as could have been achieved had his staff knew what they were doing and leveraged the tools that DND staff of the previous administration had already figured out.
