Pentagon Muzzles GAO’s Doubts About Nuclear-Armed Submarine’s Schedule
- Most of the report was labeled ‘Controlled Unclassified’
- The $132 billion Columbia class will be part of nuclear triad
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A congressional watchdog probably won’t release a sanitized audit raising questions about the construction timetable for the Navy’s next-generation submarine because Pentagon censorship has gutted the document, the agency said.
The Government Accountability Office report gives away the gist of its findings with its title: “Columbia Class Submarine: Construction Schedule Is Not Reliable.” But the GAO said the Navy and Pentagon blacked out so much of the report that it won’t be able to say much more.