http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040311/us_nm/iraq_halliburton_dc&cid=1896&ncid=1473WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Pentagon's outgoing chief financial officer criticized Vice President Dick Cheney's old company Halliburton on Thursday and said "significant" problems were found with its cost estimates in Iraq.
Halliburton unit Kellogg Brown and Root is the U.S. military's biggest contractor in Iraq, holding contracts that could eventually total nearly $18 billion.
It also has become a lightning rod of Democratic criticism during this presidential election year because of its former ties to Cheney, who ran the company from 1995-2000.
"DCAA (military auditors) has identified significant deficiencies in KBR's estimating practices related to the award of subcontract costs," said Pentagon Comptroller Dov Zakheim, referring to the Defense Contract Audit Agency.
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