GAO Calls for Comprehensive Tactical Wheeled Vehicle Strategy

By Marjorie Censer / September 28, 2009 at 5:00 AM
The Pentagon, poised to spend more than $16 billion in fiscal years 2009 and 2010 to procure tactical wheeled vehicles, lacks a "unified, comprehensive, long-term TWV strategy," according to a new Government Accountability Office report. In a Sept. 28 letter to House Armed Services Committee leaders, GAO writes that the Defense Department lacks a TWV investment strategy "that considers timing, affordability, and sustainability." Such a study would help the Pentagon "define the specific roles and capabilities of similar vehicles," "adapt...

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