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Pentagon billed over $2.7 billion to unnamed contractors

06/2/09 Posted in CAR, Government (federal/state/local)

“The Pentagon spent more than $2.7 billion on ‘miscellaneous items’ in 2008 for which the contractor was listed as ‘not available’ — a rare omission for Defense Department documentation — according to an Aerospace Daily analysis of an independent national database of government contracting data,” according to a report by Michael Fabey of Aerospace Daily and Defense Report.  The federal procurement data used in this analysis was obtained from the National Institute of Computer-Assisted Reporting (NICAR).

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