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FILE - The Pentagon is seen from Air Force One as it flies over Washington, March 2, 2022. The Air Force has filed criminal charges against an airman in connection with an April explosion that injured U.S. troops at a base in eastern Syria. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, File)

A plan emerges to lower the prices on military spare parts

The Senate version of the 2023 defense authorization bill contains something called a progress payment incentive pilot program to create more transparency…

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How the Pentagon got gouged on spare parts prices

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FILE- In this Jan. 16, 2019, file photo doors at the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) in the Henry M. Jackson Federal Building are locked and covered with blinds as a sign posted advises that the office will be closed during the partial government shutdown in Seattle. Disruptions from last month’s partial government shutdown caused a “shocking” deterioration in the IRS’ telephone help for taxpayers in the first week of the filing season, the agency’s watchdog said in a report released Tuesday, Feb. 12. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)

What federal union members are saying about a potential government shutdown

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FILE - In this April 2, 2015, file photo, a visitor leaves the Sacramento Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Rancho Cordova, Calif. A new program that was supposed to get patients off waiting lists at Veterans Affairs medical centers by letting them switch to private-sector doctors is proving to be an even bigger disappointment than initially thought. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File)

GAO says VA needs plan for coming retirement wave

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House Committee chairman wants investigation into Border Patrol Facebook group

Federal Newscast

Social Security’s death records continue to be inaccurate

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New DoD policy aims to crack down on alleged price gouging by TransDigm

Defense

Veterans Affairs told it should stop posting disciplinary actions on its website

Federal Newscast

First look at new ideas to modernize Congress

Federal Newscast

TransDigm agrees to reimburse Pentagon following allegations of price gouging

Defense

EEOC employees union wastes no time presenting issues to new chairwoman

Federal Newscast

A U.S. Air Force CV-22 Osprey assigned to the 352nd Special Operations Wing, RAF Mildenhall, U.K., performs a flyover during the Mi Amigo 75th anniversary flypast event at Endcliffe Park, Sheffield, U.K., Feb. 22, 2019. The aircraft flew over the park where thousands of U.K. residents honored the memory of the ten fallen U.S. Airmen who died when their war-crippled B-17 Flying Fortress crash landed to avoid killing residents and nearby children. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Jennifer Zima)

Pentagon hunting for other instances of price gouging in wake of damning spare parts audit

The Pentagon has launched a new data gathering effort to try to detect sole-source vendors who are making excess profits by hiding their cost data from…

Defense

Staff Sgt. Immanuel Garcia, a metal worker with Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force – Southern Command welds a support beam to support the pipe the Marines are replacing on Sep 19, 2018 in Trujillo, Honduras. The water valve was stuck at 80% shut-off effecting 6 local communities containing roughly 8,000 people. The Marines repaired the pipe to return water to the local communities.

IG: 4,400 percent profit margins show need for reform in DoD spare parts market

An audit of a sample of DoD’s contracts with Transdigm found half the company’s earnings were “excess” profit, but the inspector general said the findings…

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