Pentagon Spent $900 Million for Obsolete Fighter Vehicle Spare Parts

[The Straight Story]

Pentagon Spent $900 Million for Obsolete Fighter Vehicle Spare Parts


The Stryker, an eight-wheeled, 20-ton armored fighting vehicle used by the U.S. military in both the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, has become an example of how much damage bad accounting and poor warehousing can cost U.S. taxpayers.

While military planners focused on the conflicts overseas, someone failed to notice that the Army wasted $900 million on Stryker replacement parts that became outdated and, thus, unusable.

The Pentagon’s inspector general discovered that at least $57 million in obsolete infrared equipment was bought by the Army, but never installed in Strykers. No one in the Army noticed this snafu until the IG’s office pointed it out during the audit.

Another blunder: The Army spent more than half a million dollars to buy 9,179 small replacement gears called pinions to temporarily rectify a Stryker suspension problem that surfaced between 2007 and 2009. The Army fixed the problem in 2010, but kept buying pinions. As a result, only 15 of the pinions were ever used.

http://www.allgov.com/news/where-is-the-money-going/pentagon-spent-900-million-dollars-for-obsolete-fighter-vehicle-spare-parts-130407?news=849664

[Autumn]

1. Damn, that would buy a lot of cat food and peas.

rec

[arcane1]

2. Yeah, I'm sure that was all a "mistake"

Ca-ching!!