GAO: Missile Site Costs Likely to Rise -- Washington Post'Realistic' Pentagon Estimate Urged
The cost of building and operating the controversial U.S. ballistic missile sites in Europe could substantially exceed the original estimate of more than $4 billion, the Government Accountability Office has told Congress.
The Defense Department's original estimate of $837 million for constructing the sites in Poland and the Czech Republic "did not fully account for the cost of power and utilities at the sites, among other things," the GAO said in a report sent recently to Sens. Daniel K. Inouye (D-Hawaii), chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Tim Johnson (D-N.D.), chairman of the panel's military construction subcommittee, and Robert C. Byrd (D-W.Va.).
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My Comment: As usual .... procurement estimates and costs are wrong. I cannot say that I am surprised.