'How the Military-Industrial Complex Swindles Billions of Our Dollars'

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"Forget about what it does cost or what it will cost, we're talking about what it should cost," said Shay Assad.

With that bold quote, Department of Defense (DOD) Director of Defense Pricing Shay Assad, claimed in an interview last week to truly change the DOD's traditional way of pricing weapons - historical costs that have allowed weapons to be grossly priced for years. 
Last week, I wrote a column about a change in the pricing of weapon systems in the DOD from using historical costs (what it did cost) to determine prices, to using industrial engineering standards to find out what weapons "should cost," without all the fraud and fat from past weapons'..............READ MORE