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AnalysisMOX Contractor Slammed for Poor Performance
Documents FOIA’d and released by Savannah River Site Watch reveal the contractor in charge of the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication (MOX) project is not performing at the level needed to successfully complete the project.
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Analysis
Plaintiffs Protest PACER Pricing
A proposed class action lawsuit alleges the office that runs the PACER court-document access system has been ripping off users for years.
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AnalysisF-35 Chief Struggles to Justify Block Buy
F-35 program officials, including Lt. Gen. Christopher Bogdan, want Congress to approve a “block buy” of F-35s, which they claim can lock in savings. But recent government reports from the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation and the Government Accountability Office que...
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Analysis
DoD Proposes Increasing Employee Spending Limits
The DoD recently proposed legislation to increase the micro-purchase threshold from $3,000 to $10,000. Past abuses of purchase cards highlight the risks of increasing this limit.
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AnalysisSenator Demands Clarification About F-35’s Close Air Support Role
Senator Kelly Ayotte (R-NH) demanded an explanation from F-35 officials about conflicting statements regarding whether the new plane is or isn’t designed to eventually replace the A-10.
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Analysis
POGO Wins National Journalism Prize for Reporting on FDA
The Society of Professional Journalists has awarded the Project On Government Oversight a Sigma Delta Chi Award for POGO’s coverage of potentially deadly weaknesses in FDA oversight of prescription drugs.
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Analysis
Yet Another Toxic Leak Found at Hanford Nuclear Site
The Hanford Site, a former nuclear weapons production facility and the world’s largest environmental cleanup project, experienced another high-profile failure over the weekend, drawing our attention to continuing management and oversight problems.
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Analysis
Contractors Paid Billions in Environmental Penalties
The Federal Contractor Misconduct Database reports a total of $38.7 billion paid by contractors in penalties for environmental violations.
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AnalysisDon’t Blame a Weaker Military on Money
In recent weeks, there’s been a steady drumbeat in the media of calls to increase defense spending. In newspapers, TV and radio, this chorus contends that a shrinking military budget is putting U.S. national security at risk. Repeal the Budget Control Act and boost Pentagon sp...
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AnalysisF-35 Chief: Critical Logistics Software Not Really That Critical
F-35 Officials have been telling the American people how reliant the plane is on a complicated logistics software program. After numerous disappointments and plenty of criticism, now the F-35 Program Manager says it isn’t so vital after all.
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Policy Letter
POGO Joins Right/Left Coalition Proposing $38.6 Billion in Pentagon Savings
As you consider the Pentagon’s budget request for fiscal year 2017, the undersigned groups appreciate your consideration of the following options for savings to comply with the spending caps put in place by the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015. Keeping the Fiscal Year 2017 budget...
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AnalysisIRS Corporate Tax Recovery Suffers After Deep Budget Cuts
The government might be losing as much as $15 billion each year in unrecovered taxes as the IRS shortens the time it spends auditing large companies, according to a nonprofit that gathers and analyzes government data.