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Report
Rescue At Risk: Crucial Helicopter Requirement Weakened
A crucial weapons system requirement for the Air Force's second highest procurement priority, a helicopter replacement program (dubbed CSAR-X) for its combat search and rescue mission, was significantly and inappropriately weakened by Air Force program officials to allow Boein...
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Policy Letter
Stop No-Bid Earmarks; Support Section 828 of the Senate Defense Authorization Bill
We are concerned that the House Armed Services Committee leaders are working to get rid of requirements for earmarks to face competition.
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Policy Letter
POGO letter to NRC Chairman Klein regarding urgent need to implement overtime restrictions
The Peach Bottom nuclear power plant debacle should be a wake up call for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission: it is past time to remedy the systemic nuclear power plant security problems.
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Analysis
Government Audit: Marine Corps Rapid Acquisition System “Not Effective”
InsideDefense.com has a obtained a Naval Audit Service report verifying that urgent requests for capabilities from marines in the field, in places like Iraq and Afghanistan, are not being resolved fast enough. POGO has made this government report available for free here (pdf;...
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Policy Letter
POGO urges Department of Transportation investigation into Traffic Information Contract
Competition in contracting is essential to getting fair and reasonable costs and prices for goods and services. The Department of Transportation's "Transportation Technology Innovation and Demonstration" (TTID) program, to provide real-time traffic information to tra...
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Analysis
Export Reform Shouldn’t Mean Less Oversight
As Congress and the administration of President George W. Bush focus on the war in Iraq, the anniversary of Sept. 11 and debate whether to un-surge or not to un-surge, policy-makers and the public might have missed a burgeoning development: renewed efforts to reform the U.S. a...
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AnalysisOversight Overlooked
The failure of the opponents to the war in Iraq to find more support stems from their failure to know and understand the facts. Congressional oversight hits a new low. Winslow Wheeler explains in a commentary that appeared in Politico on Oct. 1, 2007.
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Policy Letter
POGO letter to NRC Chairman Klein regarding security at the Peach Bottom nuclear power plant
POGO has been closely following a series of investigative reports by WCBS in New York involving videos of sleeping security officers at the Peach Bottom Nuclear Power Plant in eastern Pennsylvania . As you know, Exelon, the power plant owner, has fired Wackenhut, the security ...
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Analysis
The American Defense Budget
According to Pentagon data, the U.S. defense budget is now larger than at any other time since the end of World War II. And yet, our military forces are now smaller than at any point during that history. Why? Weapons’ costs (and other factors, such as personnel and maintena...
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Analysis
International Defense Budgets and Nuclear and Tactical Forces
This Thursday, the Center for Defense Information will release its 2007 Military Almanac. Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, CDI will release selected excerpts from the Almanac, including a chart that addresses worldwide nuclear forces, a chart that estimates the...
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Policy Letter
POGO letter to Senators Webb and McCaskill supporting “The Commission on Wartime Contracting Act” (S.1825)
The Project On Government Oversight appreciates being given the opportunity to review “The Commission on Wartime Contracting Act (S. 1825).” We believe this bill makes great strides towards holding accountable those who have been responsible for waste, fraud, abuse, and misma...
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Policy Letter
POGO Letter to NRC Chairman Klein concerning former NRC Commissioner Merrifield departure through the revolving door
For many years, the Project On Government Oversight (POGO) has been concerned about how the revolving door between government and private industry thwarts policies and decisions that should protect the public.