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POGO Letter to Senators Levin and McCain regarding the Pentagon request for multiple fixed wing aircraft as part of the FY 2007 Emergency Supplemental Request for the Global War on Terror March 22, 2007
POGO Urges Congress to Restore Funding for Equipment Being Used in Iraq War June 5, 2006
POGO's Letter to Congress Regarding Removal of Funding for Night Vision Goggles for the Troops June 1, 2006
POGO Questions Senate's Move to Fund Troubled Aviation Programs Instead of Supporting War Fighters April 26, 2006
V-22 Engines Freeze: Can't Fly Through Clouds October 25, 2005
In Their Own Words: Marines Critique V-22's "Human Factors" July 13, 2004
Portions of the Pentagon's Department of Operational Test and Evaluation 2003 Annual Report April 16, 2004
POGO Makes Public V-22 Osprey Test Report May 20, 2003
POGO Announces "Fighting with Failures Series" New Fact Sheets Shed Light on Pentagon Foibles in Weapons Buying April 20, 2001
Fighting with Failures Series: Case Studies of How the Pentagon Buys Weapons; V-22 Osprey Tilt-Rotor Aircraft April 20, 2001
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In a Letter to POGO, Zenia Helbig shares her experience as a terminated member of the Army’s Human Terrain Systes (HTS) team of AnthropologistsBy Zenia Helbig , March 28, 2008
Emergency Supplemental Appropriations, Senate Report 109-230, Calendar 391, U.S. SenateApril 5, 2006
The Flawed V-22 Osprey and the Marine CorpsEverest E. Riccioni, Col. USAF, Ret., March 16, 2006
Letter certifying the V-22 for full-rate production from Under Secretary for Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics Kenneth Krieg to Vice President Cheney, September 8, 2005
V-22 Osprey Program: Report on Operational and Live Fire Test and Evaluation, Pentagon’s Office of the Director, Operational Test and EvaluationSeptember 1, 2005
CRS Report For Congress, V-22 Osprey Tilt-Rotor Aircraft, Congressional Research ServiceJanuary 7, 2005
Navy Programs: V-22 OspreyPentagon, Operational Test and Evaluation 2003 Annual ReportApril 16, 2004
Making defense cuts seen tough for McCain, Obama, By Andrea Shalal-Esa, Reuters, July 21, 2008
Human Terrain's 'Catch-22,', By Sharon Weinberger, Wired Blog, April 17, 2008
Two months into Iraq, $20 billion Osprey closely watched, By Jeremy Gantz and Jessica Desvarieux, Medill Reports, December 6, 2007
Combat Mission Two Decades in the Making, By Renae Merle, Washington Post, April 14, 2007
Osprey helicopter nears overseas deployment, By Megan Scully, GovExec.com, March 20, 2007
Marine Corps Grounds V-22 Osprey Aircraft, By Renae Merle, Washington Post, February 10, 2007
Lawmakers Settle 2006 Supplemental, By William Matthews, Defense News, June 12, 2006
Spend more on troops, less on projects, By William Matthews, Marine Corps Times, June 5, 2006
New snags arise for the Osprey , By Suzette Parmley , Philadelphia Inquirer, November 5, 2005
Pentagon Approves Full-Rate V-22 Production, , Reuters, September 29, 2005