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...General Accounting Office (GAO) is reviewing a staff attorney's recommendation and will make a final judgement on the dispute as early as next week. GAO officials said...
...protest was handled by GAO attorney Vincent Knox, who said Wednesday that he had finished his report "very recently." His investigation is now being reviewed within the GAO...
Knox refused to discuss his report. He said it was possible that the GAO may alter or even reverse his recommendation in the final decision...
Traditionally, Congress and the Pentagon like to build showy weapons systems but tend to skimp on less glamorous things. The Administration has increased spending on maintenance, spare parts, fuel and other elements of combat "readiness" by only 7%. As a result, states the GAO report, only eight of the Navy's 14 aircraft carriers could put to sea within two months of the outbreak of war, and only 60% of its warplanes are combat ready...
...GAO, however, claims that the Navy overstates its readiness statistics and that in any case will not meet its own requirements until 1990. Indeed, it may never do so unless Congress realizes that military spending is for combat preparedness, not for bringing bacon home to their districts...