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Analysis
Top 3 for 2013 - Winslow Wheeler on DoD financial management
Federal thought leaders are looking toward 2013 as a time of austerity and continued uncertainty. But more of those leaders are anticipating the coming year as a time of great opportunity. In our special report, Top 3 for 2013, the In Depth with Francis Rose team asks some of ...
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AnalysisHow Good is the World’s Most Expensive Fighter Jet?
After years on the drawing boards and in testing labs, a new fighter plane is entering the U.S. arsenal.
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Analysis
NDAA Scorecard for Taxpayers: Ya Win Some, Ya Lose Some
A conference committee has reconciled the House and Senate versions of the NDAA, and a number of provisions POGO supports for greater government accountability were included in the defense budget bill.
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Analysis
Congress’s Pentagon Pork Plan
Congress is voting now on a national defense budget that forces the Pentagon and related national security agencies to pay for weapons, personnel, and programs they don’t want or need.
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Analysis
POGO Obtains Army ‘Compelling Reason’ Memos
POGO obtained internal Pentagon memos explaining why the Army repeatedly waived the suspension of a contractor accused of defrauding the government.
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Analysis
Is the Fleet Steaming Forward ... Or Backward?
In part 3 of his series on the U.S. Navy, Winslow Wheeler looks at the prevailing wisdom that America’s smaller fleet is more capable than the U.S. Navy of yore because of higher capability per individual ship. It is a dangerous assumption.
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Analysis
SIGAR Probing Army Corps Deal with DynCorp
The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) has opened an investigation into why the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers allowed DynCorp International to walk away from a bungled construction job.
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Analysis
More Than the Navy’s Numbers Could be Sinking
The shrinking size of the Navy's fleet is just one variable in considering its adequacy: the ability to perform assigned missions, especially after withstanding whatever threats may exist, is a far better measure than mere numbers.
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Analysis
POGO’s Keith Rutter Honored for Public Interest Work
Keith Rutter, POGO's chief operations officer was honored this week for his years of service in the public interest. The consumer advocacy organization Public Citizen awarded Rutter its 10th annual Phyllis McCarthy Public Interest Award.
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Analysis
If More Money Buys a Smaller Fleet, What Will Less Money Buy?
Winslow Wheeler takes a look into the future of the U.S. Navy given our present budget situation.
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Analysis
Contractors: The Pentagon Isn’t a Jobs Program
The bipartisan push to cut wasteful Pentagon spending during the fiscal cliff negotiations has now attracted the most unlikely of allies—some Pentagon contractors.
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Analysis
Government Fraud Recoveries Would Make “Honest Abe” Proud
The federal government has recovered another $5 billion of taxpayer money that otherwise would have been lost to fraud.