Defense Contractors

Pentagon Increasingly Pays Defense Contractors To Test Their Own Projects

Justin Elliott | December 10, 2009, 6:11PM

A Manned Ground Vehicle (MGV), part of the Future Combat System

In 2007, the Defense Department paid the same private companies working on the Army's modernization program to tell the DOD how the program was going, according to a not-yet-public inspector general report.

Politico got an early look at the IG report, which notes that, between 1987 and 2007, the DOD's use of contractors for testing and quality control increased by 375 percent. The report finds that the trend toward privatization began in the 1990s, and continued through the Bush years.

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