Young Accuses TSAT Program of 'Poorly Using Taxpayer Dollars'

By Marcus Weisgerber / December 9, 2008 at 5:00 AM
Pentagon acquisition chief John Young has accused Air Force officials working on the service's largest multibillion-dollar communications satellite program of "poorly using taxpayer dollars" in a pungently worded memorandum to service secretaries and three other senior Defense Department officials. Young's comments about the Transformational Satellite program were handwritten on the bottom of a Dec. 3 acquisition decision memorandum, obtained by Inside the Air Force this week. "This time, act immediately on this direction in order to make progress on TSAT...

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