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GAO Delivers Nuclear Wake-Up Call to DOE

Kingston Reif | Jan 19, 2010 | there are 0 comments 0
Don't mess with the GAO

Don't mess with the GAO

Guest Post by Nick Roth

For the last twenty years, the Department of Energy’s (DOE) “contract and project management” program has been a charter member of the Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) list of government programs at high risk for fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement.

Late last week GAO ensured that the contract and project management program would remain on the list when it released a report describing how incredibly poor DOE has been at estimating the cost of their programs…

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