steve kosiak

Michael Cohen at Democracy Arsenal looks at President Obama’s efforts to reform defense contracting and is less than impressed:
[W]hat goes unanswered is who is going to carry out the President’s orders. What is not included in the President’s plan is how he plans on dealing with the crisis in the government contracting workforce. Take the [...]

Earlier today I was chatting with a Pentagon official — anonymously, of course — about the Defense Department’s forthcoming fiscal 2010 budget.  My source noted that Michael Vickers is one of a “small group” of people trying to harmonize the goodie-bag-filled budget request from the outgoing administration with the belt-tightening stipulations from the Obama team’s [...]