Project on Government Oversight
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Miraculously timed stock sales by members of Congress have dredged up long-standing ethical questions. What did they know that everyone else did not?
April 15, 2020 -
What scares a potential enemy more: Waves of fighter bombers or massed troops on the ground behind tanks? It's an important question with strategic and budget implications.
April 01, 2020 -
A coalition of whistleblower advocates are urging Congress to restore a quorum to the Merit Systems Protection Board by confirming at least two of the president's nominees. The MSPB has lacked a quorum for more than three years.
February 27, 2020 -
Federal inspectors general are finishing up the testing of their agencies' compliance with the Data Act. It's one of three audits required under the 2014 law. But the Council of Inspectors General changed the audit methodology between the current exercise and the one they did two years ago.
February 18, 2020 -
House members said they're working on new legislation designed to clarify and improve protections for federal whistleblowers.
January 29, 2020 -
Best listening experience is on Chrome, Firefox or Safari. Subscribe to Federal Drive’s daily audio interviews on Apple Podcasts or PodcastOne. A recent Government Accountability Office report pointed out 32 cases of federal contractors using shell companies to…
January 08, 2020 -
David Patterson was a deputy Defense Department comptroller during the George W. Bush administration.
January 07, 2020 -
Congress has ordered DoD to give losing bidders detailed information about why they weren't chosen. DoD's alleged failure to do that in the JEDI case may have contributed to the protest Amazon lodged in federal court.
December 18, 2019 -
The Army is using other transaction authority to purchase prototypes of tactical vehicles that would be dropped from helicopters.
December 12, 2019 -
The Pentagon's F-35 program office recently announced an agreement with Lockheed Martin for the next batch of nearly 500 of the hi-tech planes.
November 12, 2019 -
Federal agencies and contractors are doing more to avoid using the suspension and debarment process.
November 07, 2019 -
Former intelligence community IGs have penned a letter expressing the IGs' support for the whistleblower process
October 25, 2019 -
When the Interior Department reorganized its ethics program, it put operations inside the legal office.
September 30, 2019 -
POGO's Sean Moulton explained to Federal Drive why he thinks some of the actions being taken to reduce government committees are a step backward.
August 02, 2019 -
Twenty-five watchdog groups want Congress to considering clamping down on defense contractors.
July 09, 2019