Via Project On Government Oversight (POGO): “Taxpayers were massively overcharged in dozens of transactions between the Army and Boeing for helicopter spare parts, according to a full, unredacted Department of Defense Office of Inspector General (DoD OIG) audit – that POGO is making public for the first time. The overcharges range from 33.3 percent to 177,475 percent for mundane parts, resulting in millions of dollars in overspending. The May 3, 2011, unclassified For Official Use Only report is 142 pages. Prior to POGOs publication of the full report, the only publicly available version was a 3-page results in brief [Excess Inventory and Contract Pricing Problems Jeopardize the Army Contract with Boeing to Support Corpus Christi Army Depot] on the DoD OIGs website, first reported by Bloomberg News. The findings in the results in brief, while shocking on their own, pale in comparison to the detail contained within the full report. The DoD OIG scrutinized Army Aviation and Missile Life Cycle Management Command (AMCOM) transactions with Boeing that were in support of the Corpus Christi Army Depot (CCAD) in Texas. The audit focused on 24 high-dollar parts. Boeing had won two sole-source contracts (the second was a follow-on contract awarded last year) to provide the Army with logistics supportone of those support functions meant Boeing would help buy and/or make spare parts for the Armyfor two weapons systems: the Boeing AH-64 Apache and Boeing CH-47 Chinook helicopters.”
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