US Air Force wildly overpaid Boeing by almost 8,000% for C-17 aircraft bathroom soap dispensers, Pen

[rangerrebew]

US Air Force wildly overpaid Boeing by almost 8,000% for C-17 aircraft bathroom soap dispensers, Pentagon watchdog finds
Story by cpanella@businessinsider.com (Chris Panella) • 15h


The US Air Force majorly overpaid for C-17 spare parts, including bathroom soap dispensers, per a Pentagon watchdog.

The dispensers were 80 times more expensive than the commercially available alternative.

The audit of C-17 part purchases was done in response to a DoD Hotline allegation.


The US Air Force overpaid for spare parts for a C-17 military transport aircraft manufactured by Boeing, according to a new watchdog report. In one example, an audit found, the service paid more than 80 times the regular commercial value for bathroom soap dispensers.

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[rangerrebew]

US Air Force wildly overpaid Boeing by almost 8,000% for C-17 aircraft bathroom soap dispensers

But the Boeing part were combat ready and had lower maintenance costs.

[mountaineer]

Are these the special Boeing "doors will pop right off" model of C-17?

[PeteS in CA]

... The dispensers were 80 times more expensive than the commercially available alternative. ...

Are we supposed to buy DiFei's debunked $600 hammer shtick again? Military testing and qualification processes and who is required to do it inflate the cost of anything military far higher than functionally similar ______s at Target, Walmart, or Kohl's. The problem is not at Lockheed (DiFei's hammer) or Boeing (soap dispensers), but in the Pentagon and, more likely, Congress.