Department of Defense (DOD)

documents

JSFPO Deficiency Report Metrics 28 February 2020 F-35 Aircraft Sustainment: DoD Needs to Address Substantial Supply Chain Challenges “Providing for the Common Defense” Air Force Proposal for Department of the Space Force Readiness for Formal Entry into F-35 Initial Operational Test and Evaluation DCMA Preliminary Review of Suspected Anti-Deficiency Act Violations Memo from DCMA CFO, Keith Gudgel

letters

Broad Coalition Urges Congress to Investigate Pentagon’s Misuse of Relief Funds POGO Opposes Defense Department Proposed Service Contract Inventory Rule Broad Coalition Urges Congress to Reject DoD’s Repeat Secrecy Proposal Preserve Government’s Access to Cost and Pricing Data to Ensure Fair Prices Defense Policy Bill Should Preserve Reforms to Increase Effectiveness POGO Endorses Bill to Increase Oversight of Wartime Spending Left-Right Coalition: Vote “No” on Pentagon Increases In House Budget Caps Bill Bipartisan Coalition: Pentagon Doesn’t Need a Budget Boost POGO Urges Accountability Over DOD Surplus Program POGO Reminds New Defense Chief of Importance of Transparency POGO Urges Congress to Make Future F-35 Spending Contingent on Correcting Known Design Flaws Advocates Ask Defense Secretary for Update on Required Retaliation Training Defense Department Needs Certified Contracting Information to Prevent Waste POGO Urges Council to Limit When Contractors Deny Agencies Access to Vital Cost Information Civil Society Calls on Pentagon to Increase Public Access to Information POGO Urges President Trump to Fill Inspectors General Vacancies POGO to Defense Bill Conferees: Increase Accountability and Strengthen Pentagon Spending Oversight Civil Society Urges Senate Not to Authorize Expanded Presidential War Powers Civil Society Warns Against Pentagon’s Repeat FOIA Secrecy Exemption Ask POGO Urges House Armed Services Committee to Pursue Reforms to Increase Military Effectiveness and Reduce Costs Civil Society Calls for Open Hearings with Service Chiefs POGO Asks Pentagon Agency to Reveal Foreign Military Sale Reimbursement Waivers Whistleblower Advocates Demand Accountability for Substantiated Case of Defense Contractor Whistleblower Reprisal POGO Tells National Defense Authorization Act Conferees to Prioritize Troops and Taxpayers, Not Contractors Civil Society Objects to Senate's Regression into Secrecy Civil Society Opposes DoD's Requested FOIA Expansion, Again House Defense Acquisition Reform Bill Has Pluses, But Will Result in DoD Waste POGO Joins Groups Urging Congress to Authorize BRAC Congress: Protect FOIA from the Pentagon POGO Joins Right-Left Coalition Urging Defense Authorization Conferees to Reject Wasteful Pentagon Spending POGO joins Right/Left Coalition Urging Senate to Reject Amendments to Increase Pentagon Spending POGO Joins Groups Calling for Congress To Reject Defense Authorization Bill POGO Letter to Conferees on the FY 2016 National Defense Authorization Act 24 Groups Object to DoD's Attempt to Amend FOIA in the NDAA Hold Post Accountable for His Chilling Statement POGO Highlights DoD Effort to Kill Beneficial Service Contract Inventory System POGO Leads Bi-partisan Support for DOD Appropriations Amendments POGO Supports Amendment to End Warrantless Searches of Emails POGO Urges Department of Defense IG to Broaden Its Interpretation of Contractor Whistleblower Protection Law An Open Letter to Appropriators in Congress: End the Budget Gimmicks and Cut the Pentagon’s Slush Fund Transpartisan Groups Tell Congress: Spending Smarter on Defense Can Make Us Stronger POGO and Other Groups Across the Ideological Spectrum Oppose Efforts to Delay Pentagon Savings POGO and Coalition of Whistleblowers and Organizations Support Enhanced Military Whistleblower Protections in the NDAA POGO Calls for the Removal of Army General Unfit to Oversee Sexual Assault Prevention POGO Highlights GAO Report and Documented DoD Failures in Hiring a Cost Efficient Workforce Openness Groups Ask Congress to Strengthen Intelligence Accountability Legislation POGO Supports Audit Expanded to Include DoD’s Compliance with the Buy American Act POGO and Campaign Partners Thank House Members for Smart Spending Votes on Defense POGO and Partners Submit Recommendations to DNI on Intelligence and National Security Whistleblower Protections Bipartisan Groups Urge House to Pass Smart Amendments on Pentagon Spending Bipartisan Groups Urge House to Pass Smart Spending Amendments on NDAA POGO Asks Secretary Hagel to Stop Funding B61 Nuclear Bomb Program in Europe Groups From Right to Left Call on Congress and the President to Find Savings at the Pentagon POGO to Panetta: U.S. Taxpayers Shouldn't Bear the Cost of B61 Bombs Deployed in Europe POGO opposes the proposed joint venture between Boeing and Lockheed Martin to form the United Launch Alliance

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