Volume 49, Issue 3
The phrase ""close enough for government work"" is generally believed to haveoriginated during World War II. It meant that a product met the highest standards of quality because it would not be accep…
The United States military is losing its technical edge to adversaries like China and Russia. What the DoD is doing about it is no secret—acquisition rules are being bent, and every effort is being m…
Shane Bauer spent four months as an undercover prison guard in order to better understand the inner workings of the private prison system in the United States. As a journalist, he was not sure what t…
It seems logical to want the same pay for performing the same job in the same place. That is why the Davis-Bacon Act was created.
In 2010, a 7.0 magnitude earthquake rocked Haiti, killing about 200,000 people, rendering several million people homeless, and causing $7.8 billion in damages.
Twenty-four years ago, the Third Taiwan Strait Crisis began when the People’sRepublic of China initiated an aggressive series of military exercises aimed atintimidating Taiwan in the leadup to Taiwan…
The U.S. Court of Federal Claims had original jurisdiction over the instant dispute because this is a challenge to a federal agency’s final adverse decision on an express contract to procure services…
On September 18, 2012, ACB Construction, Inc. (ACB) appealed from the final decision of a Contracting Officer (CO) in the United States Court of Federal Claims (COFC).