Our Work - Contract Oversight
TweetThe use of contractors to provide services to the federal government has grown dramatically since the start of the last decade. According to USAspending.gov, in FY 2000 contract spending was approximately $200 billion, and in FY 2011 contract spending exceeded $535 billion, the majority of which was spent on services. POGO investigations have found that these contractor services cost almost two times more—and in the case of the Pentagon as much as six times more—what it would cost if the same work was performed by a federal employee. The move to “smaller government” by outsourcing work has in fact created an enormous shadow government of contractors that are largely or entirely dependent on taxpayers for their revenues.
Video: Tell the Army to Demand a Refund from Boeing
July 13, 2011
Podcast: Too Big to Debar? Contractors and the Government's Enforcement of Anti-Bribery Laws
July 6, 2011
Take it from the Top: Ten Contracting Behemoths Pull in 25 Percent of All Federal Contract Dollars
June 21, 2011
Video: Defense Research Contracts Raise Questions
April 27, 2011
POGO Urges Public Access to Contractor Past Performance and Pre-April 15th FAPIIS Data
March 25, 2011
POGO Provides Post-hearing Supplemental Materials to the Commission on Wartime Contracting
March 7, 2011
Testimony of POGO's Scott Amey on Deficient Contractor Accountability Leaves Agencies and Taxpayers at Risk
February 28, 2011
U.S.Government Rarely Suspends or Debars Those Responsible for Billions in Tax Dollars Lost to Fraud, Waste, Abuse in War Zones
February 28, 2011
Should Debarred Contractors Be Allowed to Build Military Aircraft?
February 11, 2011
