DoD purchasing system needs reform again

Article Abstract:

A Pentagon program to reduce procurement costs by using commercial products instead of custom military designs is badly affected with contractor conflicts of interests and incompetence. The Department of Defense's procurement system, which is set up so that a challenger company charging lower prices might not be able to supplant a supplier company with high prices, needs a reform as the system is doing an incompetent job.

United States. Department of Defense

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Rep. Dicks: Weapons buying shortchanged by $47 billion yearly

Article Abstract:

Representative Norm Dicks of Washington State, ranking Democrat on the House of Appropriations Committee defense subcommittee, has stated that the Congress has spent a fortune on lavish tax cuts while short-changing defense procurement of new weapons systems by $40 billion to $47 billion every year. The impact of the shortfall in budget on the weapons procurement and the military's capabilities are discussed.

International politics, Economic aspects, Military policy, Dicks, Norman D.

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Weapons systems seen unaffordable in coming years: JSF, FCS, DD(X), V-22 challenged

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The major weapons systems produced by leading defense contractors would have to be canceled in coming years, priced out of existence because of lack of federal money caused by extending tax cuts and supporting an army of retired people. This bare-cupboard view was sketched out at a symposium of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA), a defense-oriented Washington think tank.

Product development, Government expenditures, Weapons systems, Government finance

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