Home pagePress CenterIn the Media David Berteau, director of the CSIS Defense Industrial Initiatives Group, was quoted by the Washington Post, "Government Cites Litany of Errors in Tanker Award."
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David Berteau, director of the CSIS Defense Industrial Initiatives Group, was quoted by the Washington Post, "Government Cites Litany of Errors in Tanker Award."
The Air Force bungled its biggest procurement deal to spend $40 billion to buy new aerial refueling tankers to replace its aging fleet, federal investigators declared last week. But what wasn't publicly known until yesterday was just how badly they did so.
"This is a damning report," said David Berteau, a senior defense analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. "It is baffling to me: how did so many smart people at high levels at the Pentagon come to the conclusion that the process was so well done and announce a winner, and then we see a GAO report that gives them a black eye in running a smooth, fair procurement process."
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