In late December 1995, I got a call to come in and talk to one of my bosses at the Eglin Air Force Base. At the time, I was program manager for the Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) missile. As soon as I got there, I was informed that I was being switched off JDAM to run the Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM) program, and I wasn’t happy about it at all.“I knew that at JASSM, I would have to start over and would probably have to cope with a more difficult environment. The original program manager of JASSM. was given two major mandates. The first was not.
