September 3, 2019 - 16:31 — Sean Kennedy
New Department of Defense Secretary Mark Esper has prioritized reforming the way the Pentagon spends money. Predecessors with similar goals failed miserably.
August 16, 2019 - 12:34 — Allen Johnson
The DOD IG reports defense contractors have returned more than $200 million over the last decade in self-reported waste.
August 16, 2019 - 11:30 — Sean Kennedy
The DTS distributed nearly $1 billion in improper payments over a three-year period.
August 7, 2019 - 08:59 — Deborah Collier
In 1982, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the Department of Defense (DOD) were charged by Congress to share patient information for servicemembers transitioning from DOD into the VA health care system. This transition process has been anything but seamless, with medical records being attached to gurneys each time a patient was moved, and hundreds of millions of dollars being wasted trying to develop an interoperable medical records system between the two departments.
July 30, 2019 - 14:25 — Sean Kennedy
The Air Force struggles to field mission-capable aircraft. This is caused by an aging fleet and the failure of new aircraft such as the Joint Strike Fighter.
July 12, 2019 - 11:41 — Thomas Schatz
The decision announced today in favor of the Department of Defense (DOD) in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims case challenging the $10 billion Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure contract likely means that it will be awarded shortly to a single vendor.
CCAGW supports and opposes the following amendments to the FY 2020 NDAA
June 17, 2019
U.S. House of Representatives
Washington, D.C. 20515
Dear Representative,
You will soon consider H.R. 2740, the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2020. On behalf of the more than one million members and supporters of the Council for Citizens Against Government Waste (CCAGW), I urge you to support the following amendments to H.R. 2740:
Division D – State and Foreign Operations
Rep. Rick Allen’s (R-Ga.) amendment to reduce spending in Division D by 1 percent.
June 5, 2019 - 15:00 — Sean Kennedy
The United States spends approximately 3.2 percent of gross domestic product on defense each year, good for $716 billion in fiscal year 2019, a total that dwarfed spending for all other federal agencies.
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