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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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Policy Letter
POGO letter to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld
We urge you to recommend that President Bush veto the FY2002 Defense Authorization Bill unless Department of Energy (DoE) nuclear weapons facilities are included in the new BRAC process.
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Policy Letter
POGO letter to Senators of the Energy and Natural Resources Committee
The Department of Interior Assistant Secretary for Land and Minerals Management presides over the important and contentious issue of domestic energy policy. Due to the weight of this office I would like to voice my concern over the Administration's nominee for this position, R...
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Policy Letter
Sign-on letter expressing opposition to reauthorization of the Price-Anderson Act which protects nuclear power and nuclear weapons facilitiy operators from financial liability
As national environmental, public interest, taxpayer, and consumer advocacy organizations, we are writing to express our opposition to reauthorization of the Price-Anderson Act. We are particularly concerned that this significant piece of legislation may be rolled into the ene...
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Policy Letter
POGO letter to Senator Carl Levin commending the senator for blocking legislation that would have permitted the Air Force to purchase C-17’s in a “commercial-like environment”
For nearly a year, the Project On Government Oversight has investigated attempts by the Air Force to craft a sweetheart deal with Boeing Company to purchase at least 60 C-17 airlift aircraft using "commercial" procurement practices. Not only would such a plan deny ta...
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Testimony
Testimony of POGO’s Danielle Brian, before the House Government Reform Subcommittee on Technology and Procurement Policy Hearing on “Moving Forward with Services Acquisition Reform: A Legislative Approach to Utilizing Commercial Best Practices”
Thank you for allowing me the opportunity to challenge the misconceptions held by those Members of the Subcommittee who believe that Acquisition Reform benefits more than just the private sector. The outline of the legislation before the Subcommittee, replete with notations fr...
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Policy Letter
Letter to Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition Pete Aldridge urging caution before plunging into the Joint Strike Fighter contract
It is crucial that the Joint Strike Fighter meet all of its testing criteria and stay within budget.
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Analysis
“Transformation” Expected to Get Short Shrift in Pentagon Defense Review
The terrorist attacks on the World Trade Towers and the Pentagon have had little impact on the Defense Department's long-awaited Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR), which should be made public in the next few days.
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Policy Letter
POGO letter to Department of Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham regarding detailed maps of nuclear sites on DOE websites
Researchers at the Project On Government Oversight (POGO) have been working for months on an unclassified report highlighting the ongoing security failures at DOE nuclear weapons facilities around the country. In the course of this research, we discovered on the DOE website de...
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Report
U.S. Nuclear Weapons Complex: Security At Risk
This report presents the results of an eight-month investigation initiated when more than a dozen insiders contacted POGO with unclassified evidence that the U.S. Department of Energy's nuclear bomb complex is vulnerable to terrorist attack.
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Analysis
“Reforging the Sword” CDI Report Outlines U.S. Military Forces for the 21st Century
America’s military needs to be substantially restructured to counter the threats to global security that are likeliest to emerge through the year 2025, according to a report released today by the non-partisan Center for Defense Information, a Washington-based research institut...
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Analysis
Reforging the Sword: Forces for a 21st Century Security Strategy
This report proposes an alternative U.S. military force for the first quarter of the 21st century. The force is designed to execute a new international security strategy that attempts to respond to the chal- lenges of a changing world and also shape what that world will look l...
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Report
Is the Air Force Spending Itself into Unilateral Disarmament?
With its ever increasing commitment to complex, expensive, high-tech weapons and willingness to advance the cause of defense contractors, the Pentagon is on a path that will actually degrade U.S. fighting forces. For example, at the start of the cold war, America's long-range ...