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C-130J Transport Aircraft
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POGO Files
Secretary Rumsfeld’s Decision Undermined by DCMA to Benefit Lockheed
September 8, 2008
McCain Puts Spotlight on Pentagon Contracts
March 15, 2005
Taxpayers Carry the Load: The C-130J Cargo Plane Does Not In the closing days of 2004, the Department of Defense cancelled the overpriced C-130J aircraft program. The program's boosters in Congress and Lockheed Martin, the contractor, immediately began a massive disinformation program about the alleged (but non-existent) need for the aircraft – the Air Force has been moth-balling older but better versions of the transport aircraft yet is asking for C-130Js despite their wide ranging technical problems. Not to mention the government's inability to truly audit the costs of the contractor on this project. Now many in Congress are trying to reinstate funding for the C-130J, a move that will benefit Lockheed Martin more than America's war-fighting capabilities.
March 15, 2005
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POGO in the News
DCMA assisted in lobby efforts, group charges, By Elise Castelli, Federal Times, September 8, 2008
