Afghanistan: Army Contractor Misplaced Four $500K Drones for Eight Months

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EXCERPT: An Army contractor lost track of at least four surveillance drone systems during the Afghanistan drawdown, a recent audit report uncovered. Sloppy paperwork allowed the drones, worth $500k apiece, to fall through bureaucratic cracks. All four drones—including one that property managers only realized was missing because of the audit—eventually made it back to an Army base in the homeland. But the company that’s paid billions of dollars to oversee military inventory had no idea where these drones were for months, and didn’t bother to report that sensitive technology was AWOL....
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