Archive: September 16, 2007 - September 22, 2007
Billions And Billions
So it turns out that $6 billion worth of contracts to provide support for American warfighters in Kuwait, Afghanistan and Iraq -- twice as much as previously known -- are under review by a criminal investigator for evidence of fraud, waste and abuse. Those details emerged at a House...
By Robert O'Harrow | September 21, 2007; 7:02 AM ET | Comments (10)
Blowing The Whistle
The Senate has approved an expansion of whistleblower protections that would cover any employees working on Pentagon-related projects. The move Monday was an acknowledgement of a massive growth in procurement spending by the federal government in recent years -- a doubling to more than $400 billion since 2000 --...
By Robert O'Harrow | September 20, 2007; 7:07 AM ET | Comments (8)
Sun Sets At GSA
The decision by Sun Microsystems to cancel its contract to provide software and services to federal agencies through the GSA echoes through the government's leading procurement operation as an embarrassment of sorts. Naturally, that means reckoning what if any political pressures were brought to bear on Sun to bail...
By Robert O'Harrow | September 19, 2007; 5:05 AM ET | Comments (3)
Private Armies, Public Debate
Talk about a juicy contracting lead. "In the wake of a deadly shootout in downtown Baghdad, the Iraqi government on Monday said it had revoked the license of Blackwater USA, a prominent American private security company, setting up a confrontation with the U.S. government over who has the authority...
By Robert O'Harrow | September 18, 2007; 10:19 AM ET | Comments (18)
