Tanker contract highlights Pentagon procurement problems

The Government Accountability Office's criticism of how the Air Force handled a contract for refueling tankers highlights the DOD's procurement problems, observers say. "This is part of a pattern," said Winslow Wheeler, director of the Straus Military Reform Project at the Center for Defense Information. "In the military services, there's a sentiment that 'we can do whatever we want because no one serious is looking over our shoulder.' " Washington Post, The (6/20)