The Pentagon sees a recent Government Accountability Office report on defense acquisition program cost growth as evidence that its ongoing measures to control costs have been successful, though the government watchdog is not quite on the same page. While the net cost of 78 programs in the Pentagon's $1.4 trillion Major Defense Acquisition Program portfolio decreased by $7.6 billion in the past year, GAO estimates that 47 MDAPs saw cost increases totaling $27 billion and attributes the portfolio’s overall decline...