The Navy has overpaid defense contractors nearly $4 million to repair radar systems on its F/A-18 Hornet fighter jets, according to a Defense Department inspector general report released Wednesday . The Pentagon IG reviewed in the report costs for the repairs of AN/APG-65 and AN/APG-73 radar systems on the fighter jets from February 2018 to September 2022 under a single-source, basic ordering agreement contract. Despite following Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) reasonable price determination requirements, the contracting arm in charge of...
