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Operation Desert Storm: Comparing Peacetime and Wartime Unit Price Change Patterns

NSIAD-92-196 Published: Jun 18, 1992. Publicly Released: Jul 06, 1992.
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO examined unit prices of certain Department of Defense (DOD) purchases made to support Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm, to determine whether contractors took advantage of a wartime environment to inflate prices.

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National Defense
Comparative analysisDefense procurementDelivery termsExcess profitsMilitary materielPrice adjustmentsPrices and pricingProcurementMilitary forcesAircraft acquisition program