Archive: performance
Defensive Contracting?
Post reporter Dana Hedgpeth has been receiving a flurry of missives about Pentagon contracting in the last 24 hours. Here's what she has to say: Guess what? Defense companies are hawk-eyed about the coming changes to contracting from the Obama administration. So are the analysts who track the jot...
By Robert O'Harrow | November 6, 2008; 12:30 PM ET | Comments (6)
Fool Me Twice
For years, government folks have been talking about the need to hold contractors accountable for their past performance. Looks like there's still a lot of work to do. Last week, the House Government Management, Organization and Procurement Subcommittee heard about a litany of problems from witnesses involving poor performers...
By Robert O'Harrow | July 24, 2007; 06:18 AM ET | Comments (0)
