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WASHINGTON — From fiscal year 2020 through 2024, the Pentagon awarded an extraordinary $771 billion in contracts to just five companies: Lockheed Martin, RTX (formerly Raytheon), Boeing, General Dynamics, and Northrop Grumman. Data compiled from federal contracting records and independent analysis shows these firms accounted for roughly one-third of all Department of Defense contract obligations during the period — a concentration that raises questions about competition, cost control, and strategic dependence.
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Supreme Group the food supplier to US troops in Afghanistan is embroiled in a costly dispute with the Pentagon that has attracted congressional interest.
The Pentagon allowed a private firm providing food and water to U.S. troops in Afghanistan to allegedly overbill taxpayers $757 million and awarded the company no-bid contract extensions worth more than $4 billion over three years, according to the Pentagon’s chief internal watchdog and congressional investigators.
The deal represented one of the largest U.S. military contracts in Afghanistan. But the Defense Logistics Agency, which was overseeing the contract, failed repeatedly to verify that the contractor’s invoices were accurate
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The Senate recently agreed to make the Pentagon compile annual reports on contracting fraud. The provision by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) was added to a Department of Defense authorization bill.
“This country has a $16 trillion national debt. It is unacceptable that the Department of Defense continues to lose vast sums of taxpayer money because of fraud perpetrated by major defense contractors. This has got to stop,” Sanders said.
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