GAO: DOD Cost Estimates For Marine Corps Realignment Plan In Pacific 'Not Reliable'

By Olga Belogolova / June 11, 2013 at 7:55 PM
The Defense Department should develop more reliable cost estimates and an integrated master plan for the Marine Corps' realignment of forces in the Asia-Pacific region to account for potential cost fluctuations and missing expenses in its preliminary cost estimate, according to a new Government Accountability Office report . DOD's preliminary cost estimate for the realignment plan for the Pacific is "not reliable" because it does not take into account all potential costs and is based on limited data, GAO wrote...

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