INSPECTOR GENERAL
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
400 ARMY NAVY DRIVE
ARLINGTON, VIRGINIA 22202-4704 		 

August 28, 2006

Ms. Susan W. Ebner, Esquire
Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney P.C.
1700 K. Street, NW, Suite 300
Washington, D.C. 20006

Dear Ms. Ebner:

This is in response to a submission of documents to Mr. Thomas F. Gimble, the Acting Inspector General of the Department of Defense by your client, Mr. Brad Giordani, President of Militec Inc., Waldorf, Maryland. This is also in response to your August 9, 2006 e-mail to, and telephone conversation with, Mr. Michael S. Child, Associate General Counsel, Inspector General, Department of Defense (IG DoD).

Briefly, you and Mr. Giordani maintain the following:

  • · The Department of the Army is intentionally preventing its soldiers from using MILITEC-1 to lubricate their government issued weapons, resulting in the loss of lives due to jamming and equipment malfunctions.

  • Army officials have taken actions to develop and maintain Cleaner Lubricant Preservative (CLP) and General Purpose Lubricant (GPL) specifications and national stock numbers (NSNs), for products that do not function properly in desert environments and that do not work as well as MILITEC-1.

  • There have been a "very large number of instances of jammed weapons and equip­ment in the desert theater... where Army sponsored CLP is used." Militec Inc. has received e-mail testimonials from soldiers serving in theater who claim that MILITEC-1 is vastly superior to CLP.

  • The U.S. Amy Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM) has improperly tested MILITEC- 1 against GPL specifications that are not part of and have never been applied to the MILITEC-1 NSNs. Subsequently, the Army directed the Defense Supply Center Richmond to remove the Army as a listed user of MILITEC-1 NSNs because they do not meet the performance requirements of MIL-PRF-32033, the military specification for a general purpose lubricant.

    Accordingly, you and Mr. Giordani requested that the IG, DoD, establish an independent and objective fact-finding group to investigate the allegations noted above.

    Mr. Giordani has contacted this office with similar allegations. During September 2005, U.S. Representative Ben Chandler contacted this Agency on behalf of Mr. Giordani. A copy of our response to Representative Chandler, dated October 3, 2005, is enclosed for your information. Documents reflect that the Army has afforded Militec Inc. numerous opportunities to have their product tested and evaluated. In that regard, the IG DoD is not in a position to contradict the findings of the Army's tests and evaluations, nor would we establish an independent fact-finding group to accomplish the same. The matters at issue need to be resolved between Militec Inc. and the Army. Additionally, Army personnel who contact Militec Inc. with testimonials about MILITEC-1, or who claim that their weapons have jammed/malfunctioned due to the use of the two Army approved CLPs (when properly applied), should be directed to forward their comments directly, or through their chain of command, to the RDECOM.

    Sincerely,


    Leonard Trahan, Jr.
    Director
    Defense Hotline

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