Oversight in your inbox
Weekly newsletter and updates
Latest Policy Publications
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.
-
Policy Letter
POGO Urges Congress to Have FFRDCs Under Federal Conflict-of-Interest Laws
The Project On Government Oversight (POGO) is an independent nonprofit that investigates and exposes corruption and other misconduct in order to achieve a more accountable federal government. In light of this mission, POGO asks for your assistance in promoting integrity in gov...
-
Testimony
POGO Testimony on the F-22A Multiyear Procurement Proposal
The F-22A program does not meet the six legal requirements for multiyear procurement as set out by Title 10.
-
Report
Preying On The Taxpayer: The F-22A Raptor
In June, the Senate authorized the government to purchase 20 F-22A Raptor fighter jets each year for 2008, 2009, and 2010 using a multiyear procurement (MYP) strategy. If Lockheed, the aircraft's manufacturer is able to secure MYP status, it would essentially lock the governm...
-
Analysis
Defense Budget Tutorial: A preview of next week’s major DOD appropriations bill gimmick
On Thursday, July 20, the Senate Appropriations Committee is scheduled to “mark up” the fiscal year 2007 Department of Defense appropriations bill. Straus Military Reform Project Director Winslow Wheeler explains in this “tutorial” how a gimmick will make it appear that a huge...
-
Policy Letter
POGO urges Congressional Appropriators to reign in the Department of Homeland Security’s “Sensitive Security Information” (SSI) secrecy category
POGO urges Congressional Appropriators to reign in the Department of Homeland Security's “Sensitive Security Information” (SSI) secrecy
-
Analysis
TSA Trying to Protect Its “Dubious Secrets”
Many 9/11 victim families have set their sights on the Transportation Security Administration's (TSA) dubious Sensitive Security Information (SSI) secrecy marking. One of a number of so-called "sensitive but unclassified" (SBU) information designations, SSI has been...