Government Issues Study of a Study About Studies

[TimoneX]

May 11, 2012 1:02pm

This Is Not a Joke: Government Issues Study of a Study About Studies

The Pentagon was inundated with so many studies in 2010 that it commissioned a study to determine how much it cost to produce all those studies.

Now the Government Accountability Office has reviewed the Pentagon’s study and concluded in a report this week that it’s a flop.

The study of a study of studies began in 2010 when Defense Secretary Robert Gates complained that his department was “awash in taskings for reports and studies.” He wanted to know how much they cost.

Two years later, the Pentagon review is still continuing, which prompted Congress to ask the GAO to look over the Pentagon’s shoulder. What they found lacked military precision.

The GAO found only nine studies that had been scrutinized by the Pentagon review, but the military was unable to “readily retrieve documentation” for six of the reports.

The Department of Defense’s “approach is not fully consistent with relevant cost estimating best practices and cost accounting standards,” the GAO concluded. In fact, they often did not include items like manpower, the report found.

The Pentagon “partially concurs” with the GAO’s report.

The cost of the study of the study of the studies was not available from the GAO.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics...about-studies/

[Zilver]

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your tax dollars hard at work

[GOLD DUCK]

QWAK,IF you want somthing done WRONG or just SCREWED UP --- have the GOVERNMENT do it!

It is EASIER than doing it YOUR self and you get every one else to PAY for the FAILURE!

the DUCK

[Goldhedge]

I don't know about all you blokes, but I for one am going to study this in depth...

[TimoneX]

I don't know about all you blokes, but I for one am going to study this in depth...

Don't forget to submit a (welfare)claim, so you too can get paid for that useless..."labor".

[AgBar]

I don't know about all you blokes, but I for one am going to study this in depth...

Haven't we studied this enough?

What this needs is a committee!!

[TimoneX]

Haven't we studied this enough?

What this needs is a committee!!

Gnarly yer smart! A committee would be good! Most good!

You should chair the committee! I'll support your nomination if you'll support my bid to chair a subcommittee charged with opposing committees studying studies about studies.

We can write each other checks and charge it to the peasants.

[Triunfar]

In summary, it appears the overwhelming body of evidence has proved without a doubt, to be inconclusive and will require further analysis.

Please submit your grant applications expeditiously.

We'll need another committee to process the grant applications.