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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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Policy Letter
POGO’s Picks for the Best of the House and Senate NDAAs
We understand your staff members are currently engaged in conversations about how to reconcile the House and Senate versions of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013 (NDAA, H.R. 4310 and S. 3254) in advance of the upcoming lame duck legislative session. T...
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Policy Letter
POGO Challenges DoD’s Disclosure of Budgeting and Spending Service Contract Data
It is clear that an increasing number of Senators and Representatives are concerned about the Department of Defense’s (DoD) inability to account for how it expends hundreds of billions of dollars each year to procure services from contractors. It is equally clear that DoD has ...
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Policy Letter
POGO Joins in Recommendations to Obama on Crisis Management
As you know all too well, we live in a world where crises are unpredictable and unavoidable. Whether it is a catastrophic oil spill, an overwhelming weather event, a terrorist attack, or a major outbreak of food-borne illness, we rely on our government to help us cope.
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Policy Letter
POGO Joins in Recommendations to Romney on Crisis Management
As you know all too well, we live in a world where crises are unpredictable and unavoidable. Whether it is a catastrophic oil spill, an overwhelming weather event, a terrorist attack, or a major outbreak of food-borne illness, we rely on our government to help us cope.
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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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Policy Letter
Groups Urge Congress to Lower the Cap on Maximum Allowable Compensation Paid to All Pentagon Contractor Employees
We, the undersigned public interest, government accountability, research, and labor groups, strongly urge you to lower the cap on maximum allowable compensation paid by government funds to all Department of Defense contract employees from $763,029 to $230,700, as contained in ...
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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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