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SCARCE DOD CONTRACTS BEHIND CONTRACT BID DISPUTES?

Cat.: Yesterday's News?, Your Money at Work, Government Accountability Office, News & Comment, Federal Agencies, Dept. of Defense, DOD Budget, Contracting and contractors
29. June 2007
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Defense contractors are challenging contracting decisions by the Department of Defense more often, according to a story in the Wall Street Journal.   August Cole writes that this is due to "intense competition for scarce contracts," but his article points more to the size of contracts as driving the contractors' disputes.  ...

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Defense Budget Tutorials Available Online

Cat.: DOD Budget, Dept. of Defense
30. January 2006
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For Winslow Wheeler's Defense Budget Tutorials, click here.You'll find three tutorials on the 2006 budget done by Winslow Wheeler, director of the Straus Military Reform Project.Defense Budget Tutorial #1: What is the actual size of the 2006 defense budget?Defense Budget Tutorial ...
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Defense Department Budget: Fact or Fiction?

Cat.: DOD Budget
19. January 2006
Comment
"In December 2005, Congress passed “defense spending” legislation advertised to cost $453 billion.  The actual amount for 2006 defense spending is in reality a very different amount.  Among a complex menagerie of gimmicks and dodges, Congress actually “saved” little, if any, money, and billions of dollars were diverted away ...
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