Pentagon construction requests repeatedly lack basic cost documentation

Evidence

Adjacent to Ramstein Air Base in Germany, at the Rhine Ordnance Barracks, the Army is building a new 1 billion hospital to replace the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center as the military’s main European medical facility. The Army said the hospital, which opened in 1953, had reached the end of its life span and could not be renovated to modern standards. Again, the GAO criticized the planning for the hospital, reporting that the Pentagon was unable to offer basic documentation for how it came up with its original funding request of 1.2 billion. The GAO found that the Pentagon’s request was replete with “inconsistencies, gaps and calculation errors in planning documentation.” — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 799

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the theme from earlier chapters of base planning proceeding without adequate oversight.