The Air Force overpaid $149,072 for ... (checks notes) ... hand soap dispensers, according to a new Pentagon watchdog report. In all, the service accepted a 7,943% markup, or more than 80 times the ...

The Air Force overpaid for soap dispensers used in the bathrooms of C-17 military aircraft by 7,943% — or more than 80 times the price of similar commercially available dispensers — according to a ...

Complaints that the Air Force was being overcharged for bathroom soap dispensers in its C-17 Globemaster transport aircraft prompted a Defense Department audit that steered toward finding that the ...

The Air Force paid over 80 times more than it should have for lavatory soap dispensers on one of its most versatile cargo planes, a significant part of nearly $1 million in wasteful spending, a ...

WASHINGTON, Oct 29 (Reuters) - Boeing (BA.N), opens new tab overcharged the U.S. Air Force for spare parts for C-17 transport planes, including marking up the price on soap dispensers by 7,943%, ...

The bathroom on the C-17 Globemaster III cargo plane is nothing special. The soap dispensers are exactly the same kind of ...

WASHINGTON − The Air Force needs to clean up its act on buying spare parts for its workhorse C-17, the Pentagon inspector general announced Tuesday, blasting the service for spending 80 times the ...

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PITTSBURGH, Jan. 23, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- "I wanted to create an effective way to ensure that soap and toilet paper dispensers are refilled when low," said an inventor, from Tempe, Ariz., "so I ...