Archive: July 6, 2008 - July 12, 2008
Tanker Questions Take Flight
Congress has begun poking around on why and how the Air Force botched the effort to award a $40 billion contract for refueling tanker planes. The questions came one day after the Pentagon said it would conduct another, expedited competition to decide who should get the extraordinarily rich deal: Northrop...
By Robert O'Harrow | July 11, 2008; 12:03 PM ET | Comments (10)
Pharma, Security and Profits
Dear Government Inc. readers, please take a look at this press release about a Defense Threat Reduction Agency contract with a company called Peregrine Pharmaceuticals. By the capacious standards of federal spending, it's not much. Only up to $44.4 million. But I love it for two reasons. 1. This...
By Robert O'Harrow | July 9, 2008; 6:42 AM ET | Comments (0)
Lockheed Human Resources
The Transportation Security Administration was on Government Inc.'s mind recently, after Congress decided that the troubled agency now needs to follow the same procurement rules at the rest of the government. So this item by Alice Lipowicz at Washington Technology jumped out. It seems that Lockheed Martin, the government's...
By Robert O'Harrow | July 8, 2008; 9:37 AM ET | Comments (0)
