he Pentagon has gone hundreds of billions of dollars over budget in recent years on key weapons systems, including aircraft,
ships, and satellite, said a government audit
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) said for the sixth year in a row
that the Pentagon had significantly gone over budget, but according to
a report presented to Congress this week, the problem is getting worse
95 major systems have exceeded their original budgets by a total of $295 billion,
bringing their total cost to $1.6 trillion, and are delivered almost two years late on average
In addition, none of the systems
that the GAO looked at had met all of the standards for best management practices during their development stages
half of some 28 contracts to manufacture body armor for Army soldiers were
completed without proper tests
the Pentagon has doubled the sum pledged to new weapons systems from $790 billion in 2000 to $1.6 trillion
in 2007
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