The investigators found, for example, that the Pentagon was proposing to launch the first satellites before critical software had been completed.
The Pentagon had proposed closing part of the submarine base before, in 1993.
"What the Pentagon is proposing flies in the face of reason."
After 14 years, it's such a disaster that even the Pentagon proposes to cancel it.
They say it must make a greater contribution to the "peace dividend" than the Pentagon has proposed.
The Pentagon proposed the shift to save money and to protect employees better from possible terrorist attacks by putting them within military installations.
The Pentagon had proposed a cut of 2 percent in the next fiscal year.
Unfortunately, the steps that the Pentagon now proposes will not do much to deal with that crisis, either in the short or the long term.
The Pentagon has proposed to spend $8 billion a year on the B-2 bomber program alone.
To control costs, the Pentagon proposed using essentially the same aircraft for three services, with modifications to suit each one.