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Cost Overruns

A gracious and concerned reader directed me to this story from National Defense Magazine (at the National Defense Industrial Association). It gently addresses an issue that my contracting teacher took on in a far more blunt way: Contracts routinely exceed their estimated value. He warned correctly that contracts, especially...

 

By Robert O'Harrow | January 31, 2008; 07:00 AM ET | Comments (80)

 

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