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Tech Boondoggle: Half-Billion Dollar Pentagon Travel System Hardly Used

Via The Associated Press.

The Defense Department's computerized travel reservation system has turned into a half-billion-dollar fiasco, so flawed that only 17 percent of the travelers are using it as intended, Senate investigators say.

The system was designed as the Pentagon's version of an Internet travel site, where flights, hotels and rental cars can be booked without the need for fee-based travel agents.

posted by Fergie @ 11/15/2006 06:21:00 PM