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"… ublic schools can be seen here. Rankings of Pentagon-run schools are here. The Pentagon’s explanation of its rankings can be found here]Among the schools with t …"
"… contract, The Pentagon could avoid holding a new full and open competition.The Pentagon’s decision raised an immediate issue: DynCorp was the incumbent on the c …"
"… d contracts: it competed almost 77 percent of its contract dollars in 2010.The Pentagon defends its overall record. “The FY10 competition rate of 61.7 percent i …"
"… d in Afghanistan and Iraq. The wars cost taxpayers $2 billion a week. The Pentagon has awarded $206 billion in contracts to support operations in Iraq and Af …"
"… amount has increased from $50 billion in 2001 to $140 billion in 2010.KBR: The Pentagon’s conciergeKBR, formerly Kellogg, Brown and Root, won the first "concier …"
"… wn the cost of expensive new weapons systems, to the benefit of taxpayers. The Pentagon's competed contracts fell to 55 percent in the first half of 2011.Pentagon …"
"… et-asides), and eight percent gave no competition information at all. The Pentagon's contracting force is top-heavy, and growing more so. Out of a total univ …"
"… at least on a limited scale, are due to take effect later this year. The Pentagon's shopping list has undergone a gradual, and largely unnoticed, transforma …"
"… core functions that for good reason the government used to do on its own. The Pentagon has even hired contractors to advise it on hiring contractors. The ac …"
"… tment also buys a lot of the same things everyone else buys, only more so. The Pentagon's electric bill, for instance, came to $3.7 billion over the six-year peri …"
"… chnologies are the lifeblood of 21st century military command and control. The Pentagon (and taxpayers) paid for the creation of the Internet, and much else that …"
"… "The end result is that, increasingly, contractors must manage one another.The Pentagon now relies on contractors themselves to collect and analyze basic data on …"