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OTTAWA, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- A recent audit of the Canadian Department of National Defense's CP140 Aurora fleet upgrade found that the program went over budget by more than $133 million.
Defense officials said the modernization is an effort to keep the Aurora aircrafts operational until 2020 by installing high-tech sensors and avionics among other upgrades. But the project was allegedly started without the full requirements of the work being known, the Ottawa Citizen reported.
The recently announced upgrade program was budgeted at more than $199 million, but the Defense Department audit showed that the program had increased in cost to $332 million.
"Since the CP140 modernization program was incremental in nature, the full requirements were not known until year four of the nine-year contract, resulting in amendments that made it difficult to manage and invoke the appropriate terms of the contract," The Ottawa Citizen reported the Defense Department chief of review services as saying.
The names of the contractors involved in the program have been censored, and defense officials say the audit was not designed to assess the company's performance and instead on the Defense Department's practices and processes.
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