Pentagon Spent $100 Million On Counter-IED Measures Without Proving Effectiveness
Posted By Morgan Chalfant On August 12, 2016 @ 5:00 am In National Security | No Comments
The Pentagon spent millions on initiatives to counter improvised explosive devices without showing whether or not they are effective on the battlefield.
The agency leading efforts at the Department of Defense to help warfighters defeat IEDs spent over $112 million on eight initiatives “without showing evidence” that the solutions are effective, according to an inspector general report released on Tuesday.
The watchdog audited the Joint Improvised-Threat Defeat Agency, known as JIDA, focusing on its counter-IED initiatives, discovering that several initiatives managed by the agency did not have completed assessments proving their capabilities on the battlefield.
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