The Pentagon’s $52,000 trash can

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2023/06/20/the-pentagons-52000-trash-can/

Leading military contractors jacked up the price of several everyday products after receiving non-competitive contracts, costing taxpayers more than $1.3 million in apparently unnecessary markups, according to Pentagon contracting data acquired by Responsible Statecraft.

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experbia@kbin.social · 5 pts · 3y

There's a really good way for the DOD to avoid getting price gouged like this and it's [ ... To view the rest of this comment from your government-associated IP address, please remit payment of $45,000 to help cover the data storage cost of the message ... ]

Kittybeer@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 3y

How am I surprisingly not surprised that I'm surprised I'm not surprised by this?

Spaceman2901@kbin.social · 1 pts · 3y

That’s just Area 51 funding.