Unaccountable: The high cost of the Pentagon’s bad bookkeeping, Part 1

Scot J. Paltrow and Kelly Carr, Unaccountable: The high cost of the Pentagon’s bad bookkeeping. Reuters, 2 July 2013. “Part 1, Number Crunch: How the Pentagon’s payroll quagmire traps America’s soldiers. Hobbled by old, incompatible computer systems, the Defense Department’s payroll bureaucracy inflicts punishing errors on America’s warriors.”  (Part 2 of this three-part series was published on 18 November 2013, and Part 3 was published on 23 December 2013.)

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