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Article Excerpt: It’s a familiar storyline in the federal government information technology business: Agencies waste billions of dollars on software. Big projects end up being terminated for budget overruns and failure to deliver results. No agency is as prone to … Continue reading

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Article Excerpt: Amazing first item atop the Pentagon’s Monday contract list. First of all, you can’t figure out just what it is we’re buying, but nothing new there: …an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, cost-plus-fixed-fee, firm-fixed-price, multiple award contract for engineering and prototyping integration, … Continue reading

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Article Excerpt: As the Pentagon has sought to sell wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to often-hostile populations there, it has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on poorly tracked marketing and propaganda campaigns that military leaders like to call “information … Continue reading

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Article Excerpt: The Pentagon on Tuesday told Lockheed Martin Corp, the No. 1 U.S. defense contractor, that it would withhold about $1 million a month in billings on the latest F-35 fighter contract until the company fixes a complex system … Continue reading

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Article Excerpt: A consensus is emerging among military leaders and Pentagon suppliers: If the Defense Department’s financial outlook doesn’t worsen, the budget reductions that the Obama administration proposed for 2013-2017 will be manageable. Industry concern about a budget collapse has … Continue reading

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