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Where Can A US Contractor Find Future Growth
With the U.S. Government facing significant challenges to the overall budget, tough cuts can be expected to the defense budget – one of the largest areas of discretionary spending. Frost & Sullivan’s latest research looks at the envisioned future defense capabilities and identifies various market opportunities that will appear if those capabilities are fully funded. [...]
GAO Finds Pentagon Still Can’t Keep Track Of Its Contractors
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has released the second of three annual reviews of Department of Defense (DoD) service contract inventories. As you know, POGO has repeatedly called for the government to improve the quality of these annual inventories, which are crucial for determining the true size and cost-effectiveness of the federal service contractor workforce [...]
NYT Misses Elephant in the Room: Defense Service Contractors
This week, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta is poised to deliver his recommendations on at least $450 billion in defense cuts over the next ten years, according to The New York Times. Although the paper outlines several important potential cuts (in a nifty multimedia chart), it fails to include on its list of targets something that [...]
Sharing Intelligence Helps Contractors Strengthen Cyber Defenses
A new pilot program in which the Defense Department shares classified threat intelligence with defense contractors or their commercial Internet service providers is showing promise in increasing their cyber defenses and preventing enemy intrusions into sensitive government networks, Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III said today. Lynn shared initial findings of the Defense Industrial [...]
Huge cyber spying effort revealed, China suspected
The United States, United Nations, defense contractors and the International Olympic Committee were targets of a massive global cyber spying campaign, a computer security firm said Wednesday, with China seen as the likely culprit. California-based McAfee said it had identified 72 victims in 14 countries of a sophisticated hacking effort dubbed “Operation Shady RAT,” which [...]
Army Fraud Unit Recovers $1.6 Billion
Billions of American dollars are paid to contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan, both large and small. Everything from ammunition to nasal spray is purchased on contract, and then shipped by another contracted organization to an Army post, camp or station somewhere in the world. Within this labyrinth of logistics and paper drills, opportunity to defraud [...]
New Documents Expose Defense Contractor Legal Immunity
New documents made public by Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-OR) show that many of the largest defense contractors, including Raytheon, Boeing, General Dynamics, L-3 Communications, Lockheed Martin and BAE Systems, all have or had contracts with the Pentagon containing indemnity provisions, potentially immunizing the contractors from legal accountability for harm they cause. The documents provide information [...]
Pentagon Action Against Lockheed Part of Larger Crackdown on Contractors
Over the last few days, word got out that defense industry giant Lockheed Martin has lost government approval for its cost and schedule tracking systems on the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) and F-16 programs. The Pentagon has said problems with Lockheed’s system are part of the reason there have been 80 percent cost overruns in [...]
Future Weapons Need to be Adaptable, Cost Less
WASHINGTON: Future US military weapons are going to have to be relevant, adaptable and affordable, the nation’s second highest-ranking military officer told defense contractors here today. Gone are the days of spending millions of dollars on technology and equipment that is all but obsolete by the time it is fielded to troops, Marine Gen. James [...]
