"The Pentagon's Inventory Controls Are A Complete Disaster" Topic
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Featured Workbench Articlecombatpainter has been watching some documentaries lately set in the Western Desert, and was inspired to create this...
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Tango01 | 20 Mar 2019 11:55 a.m. PST |
"When the Defense Department flunked its first-ever fiscal review, one of our government's greatest mysteries was exposed: Where does the DoD's $700 USD billion annual budget go? A retired Air Force auditor — we'll call him Andy — tells a story about a thing that happened at Ogden Air Force Base, Utah. Sometime in early 2001, something went wrong with a base inventory order. Andy thinks it was a simple data-entry error. "Someone ordered five of something," he says, "and it came out as an order for 999,000." He laughs. "It was probably just something the machine defaulted to. Type in an order for a part the wrong way, and it comes out all frickin' nines in every field." Nobody actually delivered a monster load of parts. But the faulty transaction — the paper trail for a phantom inventory adjustment never made — started moving through the Air Force's maze of internal accounting systems anyway. A junior-level logistics officer caught it before it went out of house. Andy remembers the incident because, as a souvenir, he kept the June 28th, 2001, email that circulated about it in the Air Force accounting world, in which the dollar value of the error was discussed…." Main page link Amicalement Armand
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15mm and 28mm Fanatik | 20 Mar 2019 12:06 p.m. PST |
As the saying goes, the data's only as good as the fallible human inputting them. |
whitejamest | 20 Mar 2019 12:40 p.m. PST |
My favorite quote from that article: ""We were trying to make chicken soup out of chicken ****," says an auditor, with a sad laugh." |
Tango01 | 21 Mar 2019 11:48 a.m. PST |
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