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Amicus Brief: Behar v. DHS (What Are Agency Records Under FOIA?)
Referral for Debarment of Trump Organization Entities and Senior Officers
POGO Urges Senate Vote on Defense Watchdog Confirmation
POGO Recommendations to NDAA Conferees
POGO Urges Congress to Stop Contract Pricing “Whack-a-Mole”
Coalition Urges President Biden to Lower Defense Topline in Budget Request
POGO Joins Groups Applauding the Inclusion of Whistleblower Protections in Beneficial Ownership Legislation
Defense Policy Bill Should Enhance Accountability and Reduce Costs
POGO Supports New Guidelines for Lowest-Price Procurement Process
Bipartisan Coalition: Eliminate Wasteful Spending in the Fiscal Year 2020 National Defense Authorization Act
Defense Policy Bill Should Preserve Reforms to Increase Effectiveness
Left-Right Coalition: Vote “No” on Pentagon Increases In House Budget Caps Bill
POGO Urges Congress to Make Future F-35 Spending Contingent on Correcting Known Design Flaws
Defense Department Needs Certified Contracting Information to Prevent Waste
POGO Urges Council to Limit When Contractors Deny Agencies Access to Vital Cost Information
POGO and Coalition of Organizations Support Curbing Improper Payments
POGO to Defense Bill Conferees: Increase Accountability and Strengthen Pentagon Spending Oversight
POGO Offers Recommendations to Improve USAspending.gov
POGO Supports House Bill Stressing Inspector General and GAO Recommendations
Senate Considers Legislation to Help Stop Improper Payments
Nuke Groups Call for Analysis of Justification for New Plutonium Facility
POGO Urges ICE and Border Patrol to Not Outsource Hiring Functions
POGO Urges Congress to Stop Improper Payments to Deceased People
POGO Supports the "Stopping Improper Payments to Deceased People Act"
POGO Supports Interim Rule Amending Process By Which IRS Determines If Contractors Have Tax Debts
POGO Supports Improved FEMA Proposal Aiding Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands
Public Comment: Transparency Needed for Federal Contract Pricing
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
POGO to Congress: Don't Change Testing Standards
POGO Joins Letter Calling for Private Prison Transparency
POGO Supports Senate Bill to Improve Charge Card Spending
House Defense Acquisition Reform Bill Has Pluses, But Will Result in DoD Waste
POGO Requests Review of Conclusion that President Trump Isn't Violating His DC Hotel Lease
POGO Asks Senate Committee to Question Potential Conflicts of Air Force Secretary Nominee
Bipartisan Groups Support the McCaskill-Tester Bill to Post Contracts Online
POGO Opposes Latest Commercial Item Rule that will Lead to Bad Deals
POGO Joins 24 Groups in Urging House to Promote New System to Identify Contractors and Publish Beneficial Ownership Information
POGO Asks DHS to Pause Procurement of Private Detention Centers
POGO and National Taxpayers Union Urge Congress to Withhold MOX Funding
POGO and Taxpayer Groups Ask Congress to Cut MOX Funding
POGO Supports Federal Rule Denying Funds to Companies That Restrict Employees' Whistleblower Rights Through Confidentiality Agreements
POGO Supports Federal Rule Requiring Suspension/Debarment Review Before Awarding Contracts to Companies With Unpaid Taxes or a Felony Conviction
POGO's Public Comment to GSA on Corporate Identifiers
POGO Joins Groups Urging President Obama to Include Beneficial ownership transparency in the National Action Plan on Responsible Business Conduct
POGO Joins Groups Calling for Congress To Reject Defense Authorization Bill
POGO Supports Government Access to Contractor Labor Violations to Improve Compliance, Avoid Bad Actors, and Level the Playing Field
Groups Urge the World Bank to Require Beneficial Ownership Information
POGO Opposes GSA Prices Paid Proposal that Would Gut the Price Reduction Clause
POGO and Taxpayers for Common Sense Ask House to Cut MOX
POGO and GAP Support Allowing Contractor and Grantee Disclosures to Office of Special Counsel
Watchdogs Urge the Energy Department to Slash the Award Fee for the Contractor at the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
POGO Highlights DoD Effort to Kill Beneficial Service Contract Inventory System
POGO Leads Bi-partisan Support for DOD Appropriations Amendments
POGO Asks Justice Dept. to Investigate Use of Confidentiality Agreements by Federal Fund Recipients
POGO Supports Proposed Rule to Extend Conflict of Interest Requirements for Contractors
POGO Urges Department of Defense IG to Broaden Its Interpretation of Contractor Whistleblower Protection Law
POGO Calls for Acting Chief of Defense Nuclear Security to be Replaced
Transpartisan Groups Tell Congress: Spending Smarter on Defense Can Make Us Stronger
POGO Implores Government to Strengthen Zero-Tolerance Policy Against Human Trafficking in Federal Contracts
POGO Urges Air Force to Delay F-35 Basing Decision
POGO Highlights GAO Report and Documented DoD Failures in Hiring a Cost Efficient Workforce
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
Bipartisan Groups Urge House to Pass Smart Amendments on Pentagon Spending
POGO's FOIA Request to OPM Regarding National Security Sensitive Positions
Bipartisan Groups Urge House to Pass Smart Spending Amendments on NDAA
POGO Asks Secretary Hagel to Stop Funding B61 Nuclear Bomb Program in Europe
Feds vs. Contractors: Federal Employees Often Save Money, But an Advisory Panel is Needed to Create a Cost Comparison Model
POGO Implores FAR Council to Toughen Anti-Trafficking Contracting Regulations
Groups From Right to Left Call on Congress and the President to Find Savings at the Pentagon
POGO and Taxpayers for Common Sense Ask President to Cut MOX
POGO Opposes Blanket Cost Accounting Standards Exemption for Commercial Item Acquisitions
Congress Being Misled About True Costs of Service Contracts
An Open Letter to the Senate in Support of More Protections for Whistleblowers and Taxpayer Dollars
POGO Challenges DoD's Disclosure of Budgeting and Spending Service Contract Data
Groups Urge Congress to Lower the Cap on Maximum Allowable Compensation Paid to All Pentagon Contractor Employees
POGO Supports Proposal To Enhance Oversight of Private Security Contractors
POGO Suggests Way to Improve Federal Contractor Accountability Database
Groups Thank Reps. for Voting to Rein in Runaway Pentagon Spending
Groups Thank Reps. for Leadership in Reining in Runaway Pentagon Spending
An Open Letter to Congress in Support of Reining in Runaway Spending by the Pentagon
POGO Urges House Subcommittee to Strengthen Independent Oversight of Nuke Weapons Labs
POGO and Allies Tell Senate Armed Services Not to Fund Nuclear Boondoggle
POGO supports Nuclear Regulatory Commission chair nominee Allison Macfarlane
POGO Urges OSTP to Ensure that Agency Scientific Integrity Plans Include Contractors and Grantees
POGO Supports DoD Effort to Redefine Commercial Items
POGO Supports NDAA Amendments in the House
POGO Supports Proposed Defense Contractor Crime Reporting Rule
POGO's Response to Professional Services Council Letter Regarding Reducing Civilian Workforce
POGO and Partners Strongly Support Passage of the DATA Act
POGO Releases Defense Dept. Memo that Points to Weaknesses of Energy Dept. Labs
Groups Urge Congress to Cut MOX Plutonium Fuel Program
POGO urges DOE to strengthen scientific integrity policies
CAS Board cedes authority -- once again.
POGO asks NRC to Release North Anna Nuclear Power Station Records
Proposed Contractor Compensation Data Collection Tool Will Enhance Accountability and Transparency
POGO Urges Public Disclosure of Contractor Past Performance Data
POGO Wants More Safeguards in DoD's One Offer Proposed Rule
POGO Argues Public Deserves to Know Whether Contractor Misconduct Reporting Rule Has Been Effective
POGO Wants Improvements to Organizational Conflict of Interest Proposal
POGO Urges Improved Public Access to Central Contractor Registration Database
Service Contractor Inventory Proposed Rule Requires Improvements
POGO Supports Disclosure of Personal Conflict of Interest Information for Contractor Employees Performing Acquisition Functions
POGO Urges Public Access to Contractor Past Performance and Pre-April 15th FAPIIS Data
POGO Provides Post-hearing Supplemental Materials to the Commission on Wartime Contracting
Commercial Item Exceptions Must be Eliminated From New Suspension and Debarment Rule
DoD Needs to Expand Proposed Award Fee Rule
POGO Supports Overseas Government Contracting Accountability Modification
Conservative Groups Call for Defense Spending Cuts
Enhanced Safeguards Needed For Personal Services Contracts
POGO Demands Comprehensive Contract Disclosure
Sign-on Letter in Support of H.R. 5258 the Earmark Transparency Act
Sign-on Letter in Support of S. 3335 the Earmark Transparency Act
POGO Supports Proposal to Make Certain Labor Relations Costs Unallowable
Bipartisan Coalition Urges Congress to Preserve Provision to Make FAPIIS Public
POGO Advocates for Additional Protections When Considering Work Performed by Government or Contractor Employees
POGO Requests Information on Suspensions and Debarments
POGO Joins Letter to Secretary of Defense Gates Promoting Increased Transparency in Nuclear Weapons Policy
POGO's letter to OMB about Taxpayer Funded Executive Compensation
POGO Letter Urging GSA to Improve Contractor Listings
POGO's FAPIIS Fee Waiver Request
POGO's FOIA Request for Contractor Responsibility Database Information
POGO Condemns Increase of Contracting Thresholds That Will Further Reduce Oversight
POGO Requests End of KBR's Monopolistic LOGCAP III Contract
POGO requests clarifications to Defense regulations to ensure independent audits and timely corrections to deficiencies found in contractor business systems, including withholds
POGO Letter to Senate Committees Regarding DCAA Reforms
POGO joins letter to President Obama urging needed contractor reforms
POGO Letter to President Obama Regarding Systemic Safety Issues at Los Alamos National Lab
POGO Comments on the Site-Wide Environmental Impact Statement for the Y-12 National Security Complex and the Uranium Processing Facility (UPF)
Contractor Conflict of Interest Rule Needs Improvement
POGO Urges Pentagon To Create Strong Regulations Against Conflicts of Interest On Systems Engineering
POGO letter to Energy Sec. Chu regarding LANL plutonium facility shutdown due to repeat of fire suppression system failures
POGO raises concerns about new contractor database
Groups Urge Gates to Curb Congressional Earmarks
POGO letter to Senate; Combating Waste: C-17 Resources Needed for Troops in Afghanistan
POGO letter supporting Tom Coburn's amendment to restore funding to troops
POGO letter to HUD IG regarding concerns about HUD's The Road Home program
POGO letter to members of Congress regarding concerns about HUD's The Road Home program
POGO Letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton regarding U.S. Embassy in Kabul
POGO Letter to Senate Leadership Expressing Serious Concern Over F-22 Solicitation Request
Good government groups urge eliminating unnecessary weapons and earmarks
POGO seeks removal of oversight exemption for overseas contracts
Good Government Groups Urge Congress to Preserve Key Procurement Reforms in S. 454 and H.R. 2101
Non-Competitive Contract Documents Need Contract Database Home
POGO Stumbles on Possible Revenue Sharing Violations in Traffic Data Contract
POGO Urges President Obama to Provide Public Access to Contracting and Ethics Databases
POGO letter to Glenn Podonsky, DOE Chief Health, Safety, and Security Officer, regarding beryllium
POGO makes comments on the final Supplemental Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) Records of Decision on Complex Transformation
POGO letter supporting the nomination of George Mulley from the NRC Office of Inspector General for the NRC’s Edward McGaffigan Jr. Public Service Award
POGO Letter to Acting DoD IG Heddell concerning Defense Contract Management Agency awarding an employee for helping Air Force and Lockheed Martin undermine then-Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld's efforts to cancel C130-J program.
POGO Letter to General C. Robert Kehler, U.S. Strategic Command regarding the Air Force denials of a security breach
DOT IG Should Conduct Comprehensive Audit of Traffic Contract
POGO Letter to Senate Armed Services Committee regarding misleading testimony by General McNabb before the Committee
POGO urges the DOD IG to investigate CIRCUITS and an apparent employee retaliation action
Stronger Contractor Organizational Conflicts of Interest Regulations Needed
Strong, Consistent Federal Contractor Conflict of Interest Regulations Needed
POGO Letter to DoD Secretary Robert Gates regarding extravagant "Senior Leader In-Transit Comfort Capsules"
POGO's 2nd public comment for improved contractor misconduct disclosure
POGO Urges Navy to Study Utility Cost Program
POGO Proposes Additional Improvements To Ensure That Contractors Have A Satisfactory Performance Record
POGO and Good Government and Openness Coalition Support Public Access to Government-Wide Contractor Responsibility Database
POGO Supports Movement of Contractor Responsibility Database (H.R. 3033) in the House hope to Give Government Officials a Tool to Decide Between Responsible and Risky Contractors
POGO supports limiting length of noncompetitive contracts in “unusual and compelling urgency” circumstances
POGO comments concerning the proposed third-party private financing for the new NNSA Weapons Project, otherwise known as the Kansas City Project
POGO Letter to DOE Secretary Samuel Bodman, regarding the plutonium pit production program
POGO makes comment on Contractor Compliance Program and Integrity Reporting
POGO Letter to NNSA Chief, Defense Nuclear Security William Desmond advocating federalizing the nuclear weapons facilities security force
POGO urges Department of Transportation investigation into Traffic Information Contract
POGO letter to Senators Webb and McCaskill supporting "The Commission on Wartime Contracting Act" (S.1825)
POGO's response to the Subcommittee's July 30, 2007 letter presenting questions to complete the record on Testimony on Federal Contracting: Why Do Risky Contractors Keep Getting Rewarded With Taxpayer Dollars?
POGO's letter to Senators Levin and McCain regarding protecting the integrity of earmark reform
POGO urges DoD to strengthen and clarify its anti-human trafficking interim rule
Follow-up Letter from POGO to Energy Secretary Bodman
POGO letter to DOE Secretary Bodman regarding serious safety problems at Pantex, a nuclear weapons assembly facility
POGO urges Congress to review Hamilton Sundstrand's 9-year no-bid commercial item spare parts contract
Letter from POGO to DOE Secretary Bodman regarding unnecessary ongoing cybersecurity weaknesses
POGO Letter to DOE Secretary Bodman concerning inadequate security at the Y-12 facility and Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Government limits public access to contracting meeting by charging a fee
POGO signs Letter to Senate Majority Leader Frist to improve public access to federal spending information
POGO pushes for detailed guidance on contracting
POGO Letter to NRC Chairman Dale Klein regarding security concerns at the Sequoyah nuclear power plant
POGO Letter to DOE Secretary Bodman raising safety concerns
POGO letter to Reps Hoekstra and Harman urging public release of an unclassified report on former Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham's earmarking activities
POGO fights to prevent multiple industry reps from determining how contractors account for their costs
POGO Letter to Congress urging true competition in federal contracting
An Open Letter to the United States Senate: Support a Full Accounting of Federal Grants!
POGO Supports the NRC's Proposal for Fines in Whistleblower Discrimination Cases
POGO letter to International Boundary and Water Commission Commissioner Carlos Marin regarding POGO’s findings concerning a no-bid contract.
POGO warns of risky federal buying method
POGO's letter to Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Diaz on the proposed Design Basis Threat (DBT)
POGO Opposes Proposed Reductions in Oversight of Government Contracts
POGO letter to Commissioner Marin with the US Section of the International Boundary and Water Commission regarding a sole-source contract
POGO’s comments to the NRC about the guard fatigue issue
POGO & Others Urge Public Access to Katrina Contracting Information
POGO provides third set of recommendations and materials to the panel reviewing service contracting policies
POGO recently learned of another government attempt to sit down with private contracting officials, which could violate open government laws
POGO Discovers Security Weaknesses at Oak Ridge National Laboratory
POGO urges the Cost Accounting Standards Board to further financial transparency in accounting for the cost of Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs) sponsored by government contractors
POGO Letter to Senator Collins (R-ME), Chair, Committee on Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs, detailing government contracting concerns and recommendations in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
Testimony before Defense Acquisition Review Panel should not be limited to defense contractors
POGO provides additional information to the panel reviewing the government's buying system
Acquisition Panel cuts off testimony about problems with the government’s buying system
POGO questions IBWC decision to award a contract to build a sewage treatment plant in Mexico without full and open competition
POGO outlines its concerns with the International Boundary and Water Commission's Sensitive Information Protection Manual in a letter to the IBWC Commissioner
POGO letter to NRC Chairman Diaz regarding ongoing nuclear security officer fatigue
POGO comments on a government attempt to restrict outsourcing jobs associated with purchasing goods and services
POGO opposes industry-driven effort to further remove contract oversight and provisions that protect taxpayers
Suspension and debarment: The record shows that the system is broken
POGO's comments to the Draft Request for Proposals for the contract to manage Los Alamos National Laboratory
POGO Letter to DOE Secretary Abraham concerning Los Alamos contract
POGO's public comment supporting DoD's rule prohibiting contract bundling
Share-in-Savings Contracts Circumvent Congress' Appropriations Authority and Hide Behind Contractor Proclaimed "Savings" to the government
Pentagon Auditor Calls for Halliburton to be Financially Penalized until it Accounts for Taxpayer Dollars
POGO Letter to DOE Secretary Spencer Abraham regarding security at nuclear weapons complex
POGO Letter to DOE Deputy Secretary McSlarrow, Chairman Barton and Representative DeGette concerning media-less security at Los Alamos National Laboratory
POGO's letter to NRC Chairman Diaz criticizing nuclear industry lobbyists' improper influence over critical homeland security tests
POGO comment on the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Councils proposed rule to amend the Federal Acquisition Regulation "Applicability of the Cost Principles and Penalties for Unallowable Costs"
POGO opposed NRC's proposed regulation on fire protection at nuclear power plants
POGO Letter to NRC Chairman Niles Diaz regarding NRC efforts to silence criticism
POGO Letter to Cost Accounting Standards Board, Dr. Rein Abel Regarding Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) on Accounting for the Cost of Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs)
POGO Letter to House Armed Services Committee on 2004 Defense Authorization
POGO to Congress: Services Acquisition Reform Act (SARA) Would Fleece Taxpayer
POGO Letter to Energy Secretary Abraham recommending immediate competition of management contract of Los Alamos
POGO Letter to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on briefing attended by POGO Executive Director Danielle Brian
POGO letter to Dr. Everet H. Beckner, Deputy Administrator for Defense Program, NNSA, DOE regarding security and safety issues at LANL
POGO Letter to Sandra Gavutis of the C-10 Research and Education Foundation, Inc.
Statement of John Middlemiss and James Howard, former security guards at Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant
POGO Letter to Gen. John Gordon Administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration concerning security at nuclear weapons facilities
POGO letter urging Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham to restore citizen access to the Department of Energy's web sites
POGO letter to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld
Sign-on letter expressing opposition to reauthorization of the Price-Anderson Act which protects nuclear power and nuclear weapons facilitiy operators from financial liability
POGO letter to Department of Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham regarding detailed maps of nuclear sites on DOE websites
POGO letter to Rep. Neil Abercrombie regarding appropriated funds to support defense industry lobby efforts to detract support from amendment to the 2002 National Defense Authorization Act
Letter to Members of Congress on Defense Budget
POGO Supplementing Letter to Eric Shipley, Cost Accounting Standards Board Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) on "Accounting for the Costs of Post-Retirement Benefit Plans (PRBs) Sponsored by Government Contractors."
POGO Letter to Eric Shipley, Project Director, Cost Accounting Standards Board Regarding Proposed Rulemaking (ANPRM) on "Accounting for the Costs of Post-Retirement Benefit Plans (PRBs) Sponsored by Government Contractors"
Cost Accounting Standards Board, Dr. Rein Abel, Regarding Accounting for the Cost of Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs)
POGO Letter to Rudolph Schuhbauer, CAS Board Regarding Proposed "Review" of CAS and its Role in the Government Contracting Process
POGO Comments on Responsible Contractor "Anti-Scofflaw" Federal Regulations
POGO Comments on Responsible Contractor "Anti-Scofflaw" Federal Regulations
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