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AnalysisThe Air Force Decides to Pick a Fight between the F-35 and the A-10
F-35 program manager, Lt. General Christopher Bogdan, is asserting the F-35 may not meet its December 2016 IOC date unless Congress relents on its insistence that the A-10 remain in the Air Force inventory for 2015.
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Contractor Hired to Manage Construction of UPF
The contractor currently managing the Y-12 National Security Complex just awarded a subcontract to it's parent company, Bechtel National, for the final design and construction work on the Uranium Processing Facility.
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DoD IG Pledges to Better Protect Contractor Whistleblowers
The Department of Defense (DoD) Inspector General (IG) responded positively to a bipartisan Hill letter inquiring about a recent decision by his office that seemed to undermine contractor whistleblower protections.
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KBR Iraq Fraud Case Gets to Supreme Court
A nearly decade-old whistleblower lawsuit alleging KBR defrauded the government and provided contaminated water in Iraq hangs in the balance at the U.S. Supreme Court.
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No News on the Uranium Processing Facility May Be Good News
The Government Accountability Office released its fourth report on the proposed Uranium Processing Facility (UPF) at the Y-12 nuclear complex, and indicates that alternatives to this multi-billion-dollar boondoggle are finally being explored.
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FBI Proposes Changes to Whistleblower Protections
The DOJ recently released a comprehensive—albeit imperfect—list of recommendations for improved whistleblower protections in the FBI.
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New Report of IG Concealment: Déjà Vu All Over Again?
The Inspector General at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is in the hot seat over allegations of hiding negative findings. Recently, there have been a slew of recent reports about inspectors general who allegedly hid or edited negative findings.
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Analysis
Dead Air: TV Trucks Purchased for Afghanistan Never Used
Taxpayers paid $3.6 million for television production vehicles donated to Afghanistan that have never been used.
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POGO Weighs in on Pending Defense Policy Bill
While congressional staff are busy preparing a final version of the National Defense Authorization Act, POGO supports several specific policy reforms that could benefit the Pentagon and the American taxpayer.
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Government Becomes Master of Its Data Domain
POGO was pleased to see the General Services Administration step in and buy the rights to the federal government’s two most important spending transparency databases: the Federal Procurement Data System-Next Generation and USASpending.gov.
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Commission on DOE Labs Looks at Interagency Work
A commission established to review the efficiency of Department of Energy laboratories met for the third time to discuss interagency work and attempt to discover any waste or redundancy in the laboratory system.
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POGO Briefs the Supreme Court Supporting MacLean
This week, the Project On Government Oversight submitted an amicus brief to the Supreme Court supporting Robert MacLean, who blew the whistle on a cost-cutting measure that would have removed air marshals from long-distance flights when the government was aware of a looming te...