Archive: September 23, 2007 - September 29, 2007
Secrets And Fines
Remember the story last summer about the $3 million fine recommended by the Department of Energy against the University of California, the contractor that ran Los Alamos? The proposed fine followed the discovery by investigators of more than 1,000 pages of classified documents and "several computer storage devices in...
By Robert O'Harrow | September 28, 2007; 1:15 PM ET | Comments (9)
Private Armies, Public Debate Redux
One of the most intense contracting stories of our time -- because it includes bullets, guns and money -- remains Blackwater USA's role in Iraq. Today, my colleagues Steve Fainaru and Sudarsan Raghavan report on more incredible details about the recent street battles fought between the quasi-military, US-based security...
By Robert O'Harrow | September 28, 2007; 6:20 AM ET | Comments (9)
Dry Runs And Dress Rehearsals
A house oversight panel held an interesting hearing last week about the troubled $1.2 billion worth of contracts at the Department of Homeland Security to buy radiation detectors known as Advanced Spectroscopic Portals. The focus of the hearing by the House Energy and Commerce investigations subcommittee was tests conducted...
By Robert O'Harrow | September 27, 2007; 6:09 AM ET | Comments (0)
Calling Telecom: Let's Begin The Overhaul
So it has begun. AT&T won the first Networx contract, a deal worth up to a $1 billion. This according to an AP story that said the Treasury Department wants a new IP-based telecommunications network. It appeared that the Department of Homeland Security had the lead as the first...
By Robert O'Harrow | September 26, 2007; 5:16 AM ET | Comments (0)
