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GAP Releases Statement on Snowden and the NSA
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NSA Leak Prompts Talk of Limiting Contractor Access to Secrets
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Final Inspector General’s Report Cuts References to Panetta’s Disclosure of “TOP SECRET” Info
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Government Errors Hurt Small Businesses
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When Will the Contractors Contract?
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Cap Fight! Debate Continues Over Contractor Compensation
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First Big Test for New SEC Chair
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Lost? The Guards at Y-12 Can Help
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Booz in the News and Whistleblower Blues
June 13, 2013
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June 14, 2013
Cap Fight! Debate Continues Over Contractor Compensation
This week, the House Armed Services Committee took up the long-debated issue of setting the contractor compensation benchmark in the FY 2014 National Defense Authorization Act. Section 813 includes language to set the cap at its current level of $763,029, but allows for cost adjustments.
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Topics: Contract Oversight
January 22, 2013
Obama, Bush and the Imbalance of Power
Earlier this month, President Obama signaled that he might undermine whistleblower protections that were included in the defense authorization legislation. Did the president overstep his authority?
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Topics: Whistleblower Protections
January 17, 2013
Lawmakers Sound Alarm on Obama’s NDAA Signing Statement
Bipartisan group of Senators and Representatives stands up for whistleblowers in letter to President Obama.
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Topics: Whistleblower Protections
December 21, 2012
Congress’s Pentagon Pork Plan
Congress is voting now on a national defense budget that forces the Pentagon and related national security agencies to pay for weapons, personnel, and programs they don’t want or need.
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Topics: National Security
December 21, 2012
NDAA Scorecard for Taxpayers: Ya Win Some, Ya Lose Some
A conference committee has reconciled the House and Senate versions of the NDAA, and a number of provisions POGO supports for greater government accountability were included in the defense budget bill.
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Topics: Government Accountability
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