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Better Believe It Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-10 09:49 PM
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How the Pentagon wastes and loses hundred of billions. Check out their acquisition flow chart .
Pentagon: Bizarro Universe
by Abby Zimet
September 14, 2010


Check out the military's "Integrated Acquisitions Technology and Logistics Life Cycle Management," aka its gazillion-step process for buying stuff,
complete with "decompose concept functional definition into component concepts & assessment objective." No wonder things are going badly.


http://www.commondreams.org/further/2010/09/14-3

You'll have to scroll right to see the complete chart.



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MichiganVote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-10 09:56 PM
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1. And SocialSecurity is the problem? God...what a waste
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Better Believe It Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-10 10:07 PM
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3. You can try to visit their "Defense Acquisition Portal" (website) for more info. However ....
Edited on Tue Sep-14-10 10:12 PM by Better Believe It

https://dap.dau.mil

or

https://dag.dau.mil/Pages/Default.aspx

However, you may get the following message from Internet Explorer:

There is a problem with this website's security certificate.

The security certificate presented by this website was not issued by a trusted certificate authority.



Of course. Why should anyone trust the Pentagon?



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guruoo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Sep-14-10 10:03 PM
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2. k&r& everyone needs to see this. nt
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Better Believe It Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-15-10 08:33 AM
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4. I agree. :)
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