The Project On Government Oversight (POGO) Blog: Fraud has delayed the V-22: "From all appearances, testing of the V-22 Osprey has gone well in recent months, but its troubled history has been expensive and delayed its development for years. A federal fraud trial in upcoming months promises to unravel the details behind one of those costly delays when the Marines grounded the entire V-22 Osprey fleet for 10 days in 2003.

Two Michigan men who worked for a military supplier that federal prosecutors say provided faulty hydraulic titanium tubing for Bell-Boeing’s tilt-rotor aircraft face an array of federal charges. They are expected to be tried in Detroit (the case was transferred this week from Philadelphia), but a date has not yet been set."

(Via a DefenseTech.)