This guy gets accountability. NASA deals in lives, so there should be some level of internal QA. The first mission failure should have been the last, discovered years prior in postmortem analysis.

*However*, theres a degree of accountability when it comes to supply side distributors. There's an assumption, an agreement. You provide X, we get paid Y. The fact these guys let this happen for years is a strong indicator they have zero work ethic and accountability, only greed and recklessness. The accoutable individuals should be charged with fraud. 

Now here's the big question, what do you do with the company and all the workers?