NBC News: Army May Have “Cooked The Books” On Defense Contractor Raytheon...

NBC News Adam Ciralsky, Lisa Myers & the NBC News Investigative Unit September 6, 2006 at 10:58 PM
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Earlier this year, the U.S. Army awarded one of its favored defense contractors, Raytheon, a $70 million contract to develop a new system to combat rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs), which have killed nearly 40 Americans in Afghanistan and more than 130 in Iraq.

The Army insists that Raytheon won the contract fair and square based on its "systems engineering expertise and the discipline which they used in analyzing requirements, threats and potential solutions"...

...Myers: Pentagon officials we spoke to said that the Army, quote, cooked the books on this.
Kotchman: I don't know the basis of their assertion that the books were cooked and so ... I can't confirm that....

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