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POGO’s experts push policymakers to enact commonsense reforms that tackle waste, corruption, and abuse of power; hold those who’ve violated the public trust accountable; protect our constitutional rights; and make the government work for all people.
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Analysis
SIGAR Seeks Debarment of Contractors Who Aid the Enemy
The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) is trying to stop the flow of U.S. taxpayer money to those who actively support insurgents or otherwise oppose U.S. forces in Afghanistan.
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Analysis
POGO Wants Reduced DoD Contractor Employee Compensation Cap
The Project On Government Oversight and other groups are urging Congress to lower the amount of allowable compensation that contractor employees can bill to Pentagon contracts.
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Analysis
We’ve Seen This Before: Video of Drunk Security Contractors
There are lurid parallels between a new investigation of private security contractors drunk in Kabul and a similar POGO investigation three years ago.
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Analysis
Pentagon Intensifies Efforts to Plug Leaks, Catch Leakers
Defense Secretary outlines plan to detect leaks of classified information and pursue leakers.
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Analysis
Pentagon Single-Bid Contracting Hurting Taxpayers
Single-bid contracts and lack of pricing data are preventing good buying at the Defense Department.
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Analysis
Romney or Obama: Which National Security Opportunist Do You Prefer?
There maybe differences between Obama and Romney on the size of the defense budget they say today they advocate, but on even more important questions of war and peace, the Romney etch-a-sketch (an effort to make him appear less extreme) is putting the two peas into the same pod.
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Analysis
SEC Watchdog Finds Recordkeeping in Disarray
The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)—a federal regulator that polices recordkeeping on Wall Street, among other things—has failed to properly handle its own records, according to a recent audit by the agency's inspector general (IG).
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Analysis
The Affordability of Defense Contractor CEOs
The CEO of Northrop Grumman recently sent an email about affordability and potential job losses from sequestration, even though he makes more in a single working day than the average defense employee makes in a year.
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Analysis
Pentagon Contractors Defend Their Own Interests
POGO's Ben Freeman had a new piece in Politico yesterday arguing that the need to have a real debate about the future of the U.S. military has been supplanted by hyperbole from the defense industry giants over potential job losses.
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Analysis
Infographic: Myth of Pentagon Spending as Job Creator
Major defense contractors have been going around saying the sequestration cuts to Pentagon spending will cause widespread job losses, but history tells a different story.
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Analysis
Doing Less for More: LCS
Among the examples of more expensive hardware providing less capability is the Navy's Littoral Combat Ship (LCS). Retired Marine Corps Lt. Col. John Sayen addresses the matter with specifics in a new piece at Time's Batteland blog.