A Detroit guy gets screwed over on a military contract for a design that sucks because a retired Colonel was friends with people in DC...

http://www.wxyz.com/mediacenter/videonav/dayportNav.aspx?#top

Type "safety second" in search box
(http://www.wxyz.com/mediacenter/videonav/dayportNav.aspx?#top)

http://www.wxyz.com/content/news/investigators/story.aspx?content_id=60E6D85D-A578-430E-B4B0-A0B4B9703DEC&gsa=true
http://www.wxyz.com/content/news/investigators/story.aspx?content_id=F3314B5A-03DE-4E00-8FD9-326B20FC5365&gsa=true

I could've sworn this story was older -- I wanna say in the winter sometime.