Report Finds Congresswoman Duckworth’s Amendment on Combat Uniforms is already Helping Save Billions in Taxpayer Dollars

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–April 17, 2015.  The 2015 U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) Annual Report on duplication in government spending found that a provision in the 2014 National Defense Authorization Act offered by Congresswoman Tammy Duckworth (IL-08) will save taxpayers approximately $4.2 billion dollars over 5 years. The Congresswoman’s amendment requires the Department of Defense to establish a joint combat uniform pattern by 2018 so that taxpayer dollars are not wasted developing new and unnecessary camouflage patterns. In recent years, the number of camouflage patterns used by the military ballooned to ten. The GAO report points to the NDAA provision as playing a major role in the Army’s recent decision not to introduce a new family of camouflage uniforms which will lead to the savings. Duckworth introduced the amendment to the 2014 National Defense Authorization Act with former Congressman and Adjutant General of Illinois, William Enyart.