Missile Defense Agency officials overpaid for a contract by millions of dollars because they ignored the findings of the Pentagon office charged with overseeing such negotiations.

A *report from the Department of Defense‘s inspector general found MDA officials submitted a request to the Defense Contract Audit Agency for a $2 billion anti-warhead project.

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