Pentagon report slams new US Strategic Command headquarters construction

Military Times: Efforts to build a new home for the keepers of America’s nuclear arsenal has been bedeviled by cost overruns, design problems, mold and fire that has delayed opening of the new headquarters by more than two years, according to a May report by the Defense Department’s Inspector General.

Project costs for a new headquarters facility for U.S. Strategic Command, or STRATCOM, at Offutt Air Force Base in Nebraska have ballooned from $564 million to $617 million as of February, with construction completion delayed by 29 months, the report states.

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