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Overhead Costs: Defense Industry Initiatives to Control Overhead Rates

NSIAD-95-115 Published: May 03, 1995. Publicly Released: May 03, 1995.
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Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO reviewed initiatives taken by six individual business units of large defense contractors to reduce overhead costs, focusing on whether the units' actions would avoid increases in overhead rates.

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