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Rep. Coffman to Appropriators: Cut Pentagon Pork
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President’s 2014 Budget Has Contracting Theme
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Training Day: Improving Skills of the Acquisition Workforce
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Pentagon Budget Ignores Sequestration, Relies on Old Ideas
April 17, 2013 -
Air Force Budget Seeks to Buy More F-35s, Reduce Ranks
April 12, 2013 -
Pentagon Math, Hagel, and the President’s Budget
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Budget Takes on Contractor Compensation Cap
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Budget Breakdown: Rolling Analysis of Obama's FY 2014 Budget
April 10, 2013 -
Hagel: A Secretary of Defense Reforms?
April 6, 2013
The (POGO) Blog
May 15, 2013
USASpending.gov: NOT Your One-Stop Shop for Following Taxpayer Dollars
USASpending.gov is a federal spending information website that is riddled with errors and gaps in information, making it impossible to follow taxpayer dollars.
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Topics: Open Government
May 15, 2013
AP Case Throws More Doubt on Obama’s Whistleblower Policies
The news that the Justice Department reviewed a broad range of Associated Press phone records in an effort to track down a national security leak is yet another indication of the Obama administration’s overzealous prosecution of leakers and whistleblowers.
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Topics: Whistleblower Protections
May 14, 2013
The Whistleblower Who Wouldn't Go Away
Seven years after publicly blasting the TSA, a former air marshal might finally be getting his job back
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Topics: Whistleblower Protections
May 13, 2013
The Ugly End to the Largest Service Contract in U.S History
Dealings between KBR and the Army have gotten “very nasty” as the two try to close out the largest government services contract in U.S. history, according to an article in Federal Times.
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Topics: Contract Oversight
May 10, 2013
By Neil Gordon
Company Hit By Chinese Hackers Still a Trusted Fed Supplier
U.S. defense contractor QinetiQ North America got picked clean by Chinese hackers, but the government still awards the company contracts.
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Topics: Contract Oversight
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