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October 16, 2012
Spinning Sequestration Statistics
Economist Stephen Fuller has been arguing that sequestration will severely hurt the economy, but is he just spinning statistics “to support almost anything”?
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Topics: National Security
October 11, 2012
The Affordability of Defense Contractor CEOs
The CEO of Northrop Grumman recently sent an email about affordability and potential job losses from sequestration, even though he makes more in a single working day than the average defense employee makes in a year.
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Topics: National Security
October 10, 2012
Pentagon Contractors Defend Their Own Interests
POGO's Ben Freeman had a new piece in Politico yesterday arguing that the need to have a real debate about the future of the U.S. military has been supplanted by hyperbole from the defense industry giants over potential job losses.
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Topics: National Security
October 9, 2012
Infographic: Myth of Pentagon Spending as Job Creator
Major defense contractors have been going around saying the sequestration cuts to Pentagon spending will cause widespread job losses, but history tells a different story.
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Topics: National Security
October 5, 2012
Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship: “Big Bucks, Little Bang”
The Navy’s newest ship, the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), is woefully inferior to comparable ships, according to an article written by John Sayen for Time magazine’s Battleland blog.
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In March 2011, AllGov reported that DARPA, the Pentagon's premier research arm, had awarded a contract to a company founded by the agency's director. Wired's Spencer Ackerman joined POGO staffers to discuss how it all went down.
