Defense procurement

12/8/2016 Trump Transition Team: We’re Watching Defense Procurement Pundits speculated that Donald Trump lashed out at Boeing in a tweet Dec. 6 after learning that the company’s CEO had expressed apprehension about the president-elect’s stance on international trade.  But comments by one of the members of Trump’s transition team suggest that a recent Washington Post story about Pentagon wasteful spending also helped to trigger Trump’s wrath. The story, published Dec. 5, detailed controversial efforts by Pentagon private-sector advisers to identify wasteful spending at the Defense Department. Their report concluded that the department could save $125 billion over five years by reducing overhead and administrative costs.  “Let's try to clean that up for the American taxpayer,” Anthony Scaramucci, a Wall Street financier and member of Trump transition team executive committee, told CNN’s Erin Burnett Dec. 7, in response to questions about Trump’s attack on Boeing.