Mysterious, $307 million Australian Defence expenditure finally solved
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-03-23/defence-mystery-contract-spending-solved/10931254
It's the gargantuan ghost ship contract that's been hiding in plain sight for months.
A whopping $307 million paid by the Defence Department to a company in the United Kingdom, under a procurement method now infamous for its lack of transparency: a "limited tender".
Defence types, contractors and government waste-watch fanatics have been wondering for weeks — what on Earth did $307,579,624 buy?
tl:dr it was a misplaced decimal point.
if this was the Pentagon they'd pretend it was genuine and actually build a ship with that money, lord knows they already have a laughably bad time tracking where everything goes
Didn't the Pentagon try to have its first audit, like, ever recently?
They DID have that audit and they failed miserably.