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Contractor can't account for $9.8 million in project to aid Iraqi farmers

By Laurel Adams

IG questions almost $10 million in questionable costs billed by Iraqi farm contractor

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The struggle to police foreign subcontractors in Iraq and Afghanistan

By Nick Schwellenbach and Lagan Sebert

Only quarter of Pakistan aid money went directly to programs

By Laurel Adams

State and USAID struggle with contractors, putting billions at risk

By Laurel Adams

India: U.S. family planning aid in limbo

By Alexandra Duszak

GSA tracks contractors’ work in database off-limits to public

By Jim Morris

Keeping a contractor performance database out of public reach is like “not allowing a parent to see their child’s report card,” a critic say

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The big business of small business

By Elizabeth Brown

Winning contractors – An update

By Daniel Politi

Requiring federal contractors to disclose political donations could raise legal challenges

By Laurel Adams

Outsourcing the Pentagon

By The Center for Public Integrity

High court ponders if companies can force customer to sign away right to class-action suits

By David Heath

A bogus $11.72 charge for a “free” cell phone could ultimately determine whether American businesses will be able to prevent consumers from

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Top 100 Contractors in Iraq, Afghanistan

By The Center for Public Integrity

The Pentagon's $200 million shingle

By Alex Knott

The big business of small business

By Elizabeth Brown

Sending troops home could pave way for more non-competitive defense contracting

By R. Jeffrey Smith

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Defense auditors tighten rules for contractors

By Nick Schwellenbach

The management of the Defense Contract Auditing Agency has issued new policies that extend the organization’s traditional green eyeshade mis

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Winning contractors – An update

By Daniel Politi

Surge in outsourcing creates problems in performance, oversight

By The Center for Public Integrity

GSA tracks contractors’ work in database off-limits to public

By Jim Morris

The big business of small business

By Elizabeth Brown

Wartime contracting getting new scrutiny on the ground

By Nick Schwellenbach

Here comes the cavalry, of sorts. Fifteen members and staff from the congressionally-created Commission on Wartime Contracting have left sta

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Failure to regulate security contractors

By The Center for Public Integrity

Former Blackwater employees accuse security contractor of defrauding government

By Nick Schwellenbach and Carol D. Leonnig

Private contractors

By The Center for Public Integrity

Windfalls of war: Pentagon's competition for contracts abysmal compared to other agencies

By Sharon Weinberger

Early warning

By Alan Green

WASHINGTON, May 5, 2004 — One year before the U.S. invasion of Iraq, then-Secretary of the Army Thomas E. White informed a trio of top-level

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Outsourcing the Pentagon

By Larry Makinson

Top 100 Contractors in Iraq, Afghanistan

By The Center for Public Integrity

Sending troops home could pave way for more non-competitive defense contracting

By R. Jeffrey Smith

Windfalls of war: Pentagon's no-bid contracts triple in 10 years of war

By Sharon Weinberger

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New gov’t contractor integrity database will be off-limits to public

Federal contractors behaving badly are nothing new. But a government database to track their misconduct is....

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Surge in outsourcing creates problems in performance, oversight

By The Center for Public Integrity

Outsourcing the Pentagon

By The Center for Public Integrity

Early warning

By Alan Green

GSA tracks contractors’ work in database off-limits to public

By Jim Morris

Requiring federal contractors to disclose political donations could raise legal challenges

By Laurel Adams

Proposed Obama order requiring federal contractors to disclose contributions under fire

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Winning contractors – An update

By Daniel Politi

GSA tracks contractors’ work in database off-limits to public

By Jim Morris

The big business of small business

By Elizabeth Brown

Surge in outsourcing creates problems in performance, oversight

By The Center for Public Integrity

A script for when creditors call

By Shirley Gao

Some debt settlement companies give consumers a script to follow when creditors call

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Debt settlement company fined, ordered to stop operating in Illinois

By Shirley Gao

Borrower Nightmares: Small town teacher seeks help for big debt, ends up in bankruptcy

By Shirley Gao

Real estate mogul built offshore maze as creditors, Swedish government pursued him

By International Consortium of Investigative Journalists

Broad reach of new consumer financial agency may fall short in some areas

By David Heath

Winning contractors – An update

By Daniel Politi

As the number of contracts rises, problems continue to plague the contracting process

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GSA tracks contractors’ work in database off-limits to public

By Jim Morris

Requiring federal contractors to disclose political donations could raise legal challenges

By Laurel Adams

Outsourcing the Pentagon

By The Center for Public Integrity

The big business of small business

By Elizabeth Brown

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