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Uranium Processing Facility: When You’re in a Hole, Just Stop Digging
The Uranium Processing Facility at the Y-12 Complex is a construction project that is vastly over budget, behind schedule, and facing serious questions about its ability to contribute to the mission of the National Nuclear Security Administration.
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Analysis
The Uranium Processing Fiasco
The Energy Department and National Nuclear Security Administration have birthed another boondoggle—a Uranium Processing Facility projected to run billions of dollars over budget and 20 years behind schedule. It’s long past time to see if there isn’t a better solution.
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Analysis
Nearly Half of Fortune 500 Gets the (Small) Business
The American Small Business League (ASBL) found that 235 of the Fortune 500 companies received hundreds of millions of dollars in federal small business contracts in 2012 and 2013.
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Analysis
U.S. Seeks to Join International Transparency Initiative
In early 2014, the U.S. will submit its application to join the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, a 39-country standard intended to increase the amount of information drilling and mining industries make available to the public.
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Analysis
New Declassification Board Member Has Long Classification Past
Last week, Kenneth L. Wainstein was quietly named to the Public Interest Declassification Board. Wainstein is not the first person you might think of with an interest in promoting government transparency. In fact, his work experience suggests a serious conflict of interest.
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Analysis
SEC Continues Fight Over ‘No Admit No Deny’ Policy
The Securities and Exchange Commission continues to implement and debate its policy that allows companies to avoid admission of guilt, despite announcements that seemed to signal a potential shift.
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Analysis
Audit Finds Serious Flaws in Navy Security Screening
A Pentagon Inspector General report released this week finds major flaws in a security system used to regulate contractor access to Navy facilities.
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Analysis
State Dept. Corrects Testimony POGO Exposed as Misleading
A week after the Project On Government Oversight exposed recent State Department testimony on embassy security as inaccurate and misleading, the Department has written a letter to members of the U.S. Senate acknowledging that its testimony was wrong and correcting the record.
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AnalysisKelly Vlahos Article on ‘Fighter Mafia’ Reunion
Kelly Vlahos Article on 'Fighter Mafia' Reunion
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Analysis
Navy Yard Shooter Was Security-Cleared Contractor
In the days since a gunman killed 12 people at the Navy Yard complex in Washington, D.C., many have been questioning why–despite warning signs like gun-related arrests and mental illness–Aaron Alexis was given secret-level clearance for his job with a subcontractor to Hewlett ...
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Analysis
Questions for Under Secretary of State Patrick Kennedy
At a House hearing Wednesday, Under Secretary of State for Management Patrick F. Kennedy faced intense questioning about Benghazi. There are also questions Kennedy could answer about the U.S. embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan, where former guards say security problems could lead t...
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Analysis
Inspectors General Concerned About Budget Cuts and Staff Vacancies
A survey of inspectors general (IG) released yesterday discovered that they have been significantly affected by the sequester and other budget cuts.