Boeing Refused to Give Cost Data for 11,000 Replacement Parts, Pentagon Says
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David Calhoun, president and chief executive officer of the Boeing Co.
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Boeing Co. refused to give the Pentagon cost data for almost 11,000 replacement parts over a year, according to a congressionally mandated report intended to shine a light on some military contractors’ opaque pricing data.
The data denials for 10,659 items under a single contract accounted for 97% of such refusals by contractors during negotiations from October 2020 through September 2021, according to a previously undisclosed Pentagon assessment submitted to House and Senate defense committees.