Floodgates of Fraud
BadGuysBlog – The National Reconnaissance Office has an annual budget of around $7.5 Billion (Around 17% of the IC budget). The NRO’s Inspector General –
Feldman suggested something was amiss in the Journal of Public Inquiry, an obscure publication put out twice a year by the nation’s inspectors general. With Alan Larsen, his general counsel, he described how contractors have systematically delayed and brushed off IG requests for information. When his office pushed through a revision to all contracts, explicitly stating the need to cooperate, some contractors “were hysterical, accusing NRO of violating four different amendments to the U.S. Constitution,” they wrote.
No specifics are out yet but with a track record as stated in the article –
The agency’s troubled next-generation satellite, a $25 billion boondoggle called Future Imagery Architecture, has been so dogged by cost overruns and technical trouble that the director of national intelligence cut the project in half last year.
It doesn’t look good.
-Shlok
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