This article describes just how far behind the Defense Department is. They have not yet finished the inventory. The California White Paper estimates that awareness is 1%, inventory is 1%. This means that, at best, over 98% of the repair lies ahead.
Chaos looms for the West's defense.
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"We’re not through the inventory stage. We may still have some…doing awareness. And we will probably be coming across systems and subsystems no one thought about into 1999. Given the multitude of systems, the management problem [at DoD] is infinitely greater than other agencies."
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