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Thursday, September 8, 2011

'Sikorsky Charged Army $2,393 for $181 Black Hawk Plastic Part'

all hail the "military industrial complex"..............from bloomberg.......

"Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. overcharged the Army for 28 UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter spare parts, including $2,393.41 for a plastic wiring box cover worth $181.70, according to the office of the Defense Department’s Inspector General.

Sikorsky, a unit of Hartford, Connecticut-based United Technologies Corp., charged the Army $7,814.88 for a rotor used to cool radiator oil that cost another Pentagon agency $1,536.65, according to the 65-page audit. Bloomberg News obtained the entire report, a three-page summary of which the Inspector General is scheduled to make public today".............READ MORE

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