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$50 Million Of Faulty Army Helmets
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Prison inmates employed to manufacture helmets for the US army were encouraged to cut corners and falsify safety documents by US Defense Department subcontractors, defense news website Foxtrot Alpha reported.
The US government lost millions of dollars after inmates at US prisons made helmets for the army, only for the gear to be recalled because of dangerous manufacturing defects, defense news website Foxtrot Alpha reported on Saturday. According to a report published earlier this week by the US Department of Justice, the privately-owned company Federal Prison Industries and another contractor, ArmorSource, were awarded contracts by the Department of Defense (DOD) to produce Advance Combat Helmets (ACH) and Lightweight Marine Corps Helmets (LMCH) for the US Army. From 2006 to 2009 ArmorSource and the FPI were paid more than $30 million to produce 126,052 ACH helmets.
In May 2008, FPI was awarded a contract worth over $23 million to produce LMCH helmets at a prison in Beaumont, Texas. However, of 23,000 helmets produced at the facility, just 3,000 were delivered to the DoD, more than half of which were subsequently determined to be defective. All 23,000 LMCH helmets were ultimately placed in quarantine, and the FPI did not receive payment for them. It cost the US government more than $19,083,959 to recall the 126,052 ACH helmets.
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