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More Taxpayer Dollars Down the Drain
?Just how expensive and wasteful this is was marked in the GAO's audit: ?Since 2000, the Department of Defense (DOD) has roughly doubled its planned investment in new systems from $790 billion to $1.6 trillion in 2007, but acquisition outcomes in terms of cost and schedule have not improved.? Pentagon cost overruns, always a huge problem, have mushroomed.?
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