The Nation - News from June 12, 1989
A civilian technical expert was fired by the Navy after he complained of faulty radar equipment, the Hartford Courant reported. Joseph C. Richards, 42, of Lyme, Conn., told the paper he was dismissed from the Navy’s Supervisor of Shipbuilding office in the Electric Boat Shipyard at Groton, Conn., after he reported problems with electronic towed array sonar systems towed behind 688-Class attack submarines. Richards, who is appealing his dismissal, said that because of mistakes made at Electric Boat, a division of General Dynamics Corp., sonar systems worth millions of dollars sometimes must be abandoned to keep the tow cable from fouling the submarine’s propeller.
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