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Analysis
A Guaranteed Taxpayer Rip-Off?
The U.S. Navy and Coast Guard are "essentially rewarding" contractors for producing defective ships, according to a recent GAO report.
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AnalysisPentagon Watchdog Changed Files Ahead of GAO Audit
Acting Department of Defense Inspector General must address his office's shortfalls when it comes to protecting military whistleblowers.
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FBI Improves eFOIA by Dropping ID Requirement
Amid significant outcry, the FBI has responded by removing the controversial ID requirement from the newest version of its web-based FOIA system.
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AnalysisPilots Officially Cleared of Responsibility in V-22 Crash
Google sentence: Sixteen years after a V-22 Osprey crash that killed 19 Marines, the Pentagon has finally cleared the two Marine Corps pilots who had been blamed. Representative Walter Jones (R-NC) helped clear the pilot’s names and show that poor design and inadequate testing...
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Pentagon Must Improve Oversight of Defective Spare Parts
According to a new report, the Pentagon passed up more than $12 million in refunds from contractors and put our fighting forces at risk by not effectively managing its stockpile of defective spare parts.
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False Profits: Air Force Contractors Reap Taxpayer-Funded Windfall
The U.S. Air Force might have paid contractors tens of millions of dollars in unwarranted profits, according to a new report by the Department of Defense Inspector General.
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Divided Loyalty: Financial Industry Fights To Keep Its Interests Ahead of Investors’
It took almost six years, but the government is set to issue a rule that will increase transparency and accountability in financial advice given to retirement savers.
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AnalysisPentagon’s 2017 Budget is Mardi Gras for Defense Contractors
The Department of Defense's proposed budget for fiscal year 2017 continues a tradition of war-spending budget gimmicks and funding over-priced weapon programs like the F-35.
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America’s $1 Trillion National Security Budget
In the final budget of the Obama administration, defense agencies are asking taxpayers to pay $1 trillion for our national security budget
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Analysis
Radioactive Pork Finally on the Chopping Block
An internal memo obtained by the Project On Government Oversight shows that the Department of Energy is shifting focus away from the Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility (MOX).
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Former Rep. David Hobson: Not Cutting MOX Is My “Biggest Regret”
Not only is the MOX facility more than one-thousand percent over cost and years behind schedule, the project lacks even a single U.S. utility customer for its commercial reactor fuel.