Part 1 described one of the memoranda issued by the Obama administration to end the abusive privatization that existed under the Bush kleptocracy. Part 2 examined a second memo also issued July 29, by OMB Director Peter R. Orszag. This memorandum, also issued July 29 by Peter Orszag, discusses hidde ...
Amazing though it may seem, private contractors were awarded contracts worth $500 billion last year . . . and yet the federal government continued its long practice of letting private contractors off the hook and not demanding that they be held accountable. This is hardly secret information. Unbosse ...
The Pew Center on the States has decided to get into the business of opining on highway privatization, most recently with a report that uses the Pennsylvania Turnpike privatization process as a lens to assess highway privatization in general. So how did it do on its assessment of assessment? I've al ...
It's a trickle now, but DoD is gradually bringing work back in-house. And the reason? To lower costs. It seems like , oh, so six months ago, that the government still kept up the drumbeat that privatizing was always better. So it feels startling to see government documents that state doing work in-h ...
Among the recommendations made April 6 by Defense Secretary Robert Gates for the FY 2010 budget was a commitment to convert thousands of contractor jobs into government jobs. Why? To save money. Gates tells us that using contractors adds layers off complexity and costs, leading to problems in govern ...
