I am confident that if we use market-based mechanisms, rather than traditional command and control approaches, we can incent the environment...
We have had the hearings in this room before in talking about, among other things, cost overruns in IT projects.
I think that is one of the fundamental reasons why you are seeing a significant reduction in the use of award-fee contracts in the Departmen...
That is a great coincidence.
My guess is that somebody at DOD a couple of years ago... said, if we are going to run this agency the right way, we have got to do somethin...
Part of our job is to provide oversight.
Do they have a Chief Procurement Officer at HHS?
Thanks very much, and when we get to the Q&A, I am going to be asking you--you talked about the declining awarding of award-fee contracts ov...
I talked to one of my colleagues the other day, and we talked about how over the last 8 years we have increased our Nation's debt by, I thin...
I have a lot of confidence in OMB that they will get it right.
Then I think beyond that, one Department of Homeland Security official gave a contractor an award fee despite saying the contractor's action...
The Department of Health and Human Services did not send a witness today to our second panel, and I am disappointed with that.
we are on track this year to run the biggest single-year budget deficit we have ever run.
Why do you think the Department of Defense has actually made rather remarkable improvement, not perfect but a remarkable turnaround?
I think OMB's guidance, again, hits many of the key things, but what our work has shown, even this most recent report, is that the word has ...
I would have liked to have been there for that.
I think we are fortunate to have a couple of members of this panel who have actually been auditors for their State, Attorney Generals for th...
I think one of our other witnesses in the second panel talked about the lack of training.
