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When Will the Contractors Contract?
June 14, 2013 -
Rep. Coffman to Appropriators: Cut Pentagon Pork
May 1, 2013 -
President’s 2014 Budget Has Contracting Theme
April 25, 2013 -
Training Day: Improving Skills of the Acquisition Workforce
April 23, 2013 -
Pentagon Budget Ignores Sequestration, Relies on Old Ideas
April 17, 2013 -
Budget Takes on Contractor Compensation Cap
April 12, 2013 -
Air Force Budget Seeks to Buy More F-35s, Reduce Ranks
April 12, 2013 -
Pentagon Math, Hagel, and the President’s Budget
April 12, 2013 -
Budget Breakdown: Rolling Analysis of Obama's FY 2014 Budget
April 10, 2013
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May 6, 2013
For Whistleblowers, Fraying Protection
Ten years ago, advocates, funders, journalists and citizens gathered in an effort to champion the rights of whistleblowers. We saw a brighter future for truth-tellers, but sadly, ten years later, we fear that we may have, in fact, lost ground.
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Topics: Whistleblower Protections
May 3, 2013
Illegal Foreclosures Are Corporate Trade Secrets?
Federal agencies are withholding information about the illegal foreclosure practices of mortgage companies from Members of Congress, relying on justifications that closely track those used to withhold documents from the general public under the Freedom of Information Act.
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Topics: Open Government
May 1, 2013
Rep. Coffman to Appropriators: Cut Pentagon Pork
Rep. Mike Coffman sent a letter to the House Appropriations Committee and the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee asking them to replace sequestration with "responsible reductions to the defense budget."
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Topics: National Security
April 30, 2013
A Nun, a House Painter, and a Drifter Walk into a Nuclear Complex
It sounds like the start of an absurd joke, but that’s what happened last summer at the Y-12 National Security Complex in Tennessee. Three peace activists broke into one of the most secure nuclear-weapons facilities in the U.S., often called the Fort Knox of Uranium.
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Topics: National Security
April 29, 2013
CIA Used Bags of Cash to Buy Influence in Afghanistan
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has been giving the office of Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan’s president, secret deliveries of cash for more than a decade, according to an article in The New York Times.
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Topics: National Security
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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.
