DOD changes sexual assault response procedures
Changes include an “expedited” transfer request from your unit, with a72-hour approval deadline, and new record-keeping procedures so victims can get reports after they leave the military, according to a DOD release.
GAO: Pentagon misreports or ignores long-term weapons costs
“The true costs of some of the biggest pieces of the U.S. arsenal are mostly hidden, the audit concluded, because the Defense Department’s public documents typically list only how much has been spent or will be spent to acquire its fighters, ships, and vehicles.
“The long-term costs of owning such armaments, including all the operations, maintenance, and repair expenses, are often misstated or ignored in the Pentagon’s reports to Congress, or compiled only in an aggregate number that defeats careful analysis of rising costs in individual programs or prudent planning for future military spending, according to the auditors.”
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(WashPost) As the bipartisan debt “supercommittee” was meeting publicly for the fourth time Wednesday morning in the Hart Senate Office Building, the House Armed Services Committee was gathered across the Capitol campus in the Rayburn Building to examine the possible effects of the Pentagon cuts that would be enacted if the 12-member panel fails to complete its task.
The outlook: Not pretty, at least to hear one of the panel’s witnesses tell it.
George Mason University professor Stephen Fuller told the Armed Services Committee members that if the supercommittee pulls the “trigger” on hundreds of billions of dollars in cuts to Pentagon spending, the result will be the loss of more than 1 million jobs.
The Department of Defense Inspector General’s office this week released its annual report on ongoing investigations and those it plans for the new year (2012). We’ve got a copy (PDF) floating in DocumentCloud.