We know that there are severe management problems in the Pentagon. Heck, they can't even audit their books and won't be able to until maybe 2017. Now, McClatchy has another example of waste by the military. This one concerns the Stryker vehicle.
The military just kept buying replacement parts and never using them. For example, it bought 9,179 small replacement gears called pinions as a temporary fix for a Stryker suspension problem that surfaced
between 2007 and 2009. The Army fixed the problem in
2010, but kept buying pinions. It turns out they needed only 15 of the gears. The 9,164 extra pinions are worth $572,000.
Similar 'decisions' resulted in an inventory of nearly $900 million worth of Stryker replacement parts with much of the gear becoming
outdated even as the military continued to order more equipment.
A previous IG report indicated that this is not the first problem with the military's attempt at inventory control of the Strykers. That report said that $335.9 million was being wasted as excess inventory.
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