How does the Pentagon express the true cost of flight?

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How does the Pentagon express the true cost of flight?

The Defense Department can be surprisingly vague in how it expresses the cost of flight, and how to interpret it.

Federal News Network Staff

January 11, 2016 10:31 am

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Pentagon Solutions - January 11, 2016

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An old quip about the Defense Department is that the Navy, Army and Marine Corps all have their own air force. Throw in the Air Force itself and you’ve got a lot of flying assets. Yet DoD can be surprisingly vague in how it expresses the cost of flight, and how to interpret it. The Rand Corporation looked into this and came up with some recommendations for an activity that costs billions every year. Michael Boito, senior cost analyst at Rand, provides insight on Pentagon Solutions.

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