Many view the Memorial Day weekend as the official start of summer, filled with festivals, parades, and of course, sales on a variety of products. But the underlying reason for the holiday is to remember and honor those who fought, served and made the ultimate sacrifice to protect our nation and the freedoms guaranteed by […]
There should be no third bite at the taxpayers’ money for the twice-killed alternate engine for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF). In 2011, following years of opposition from multiple presidential administrations and the Department of Defense (DOD), along with a coalition of taxpayer organizations, the first attempt to provide an alternate engine for the […]
This Week in Waste – May 9, 2025 Welcome to This Week in Waste, a series by Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) that highlights how taxpayer dollars are being wasted in the federal, state and local levels of government, and efforts to fight back against this spendthrift behavior. CAGW Files Comments to Department of Commerce […]
The Department of Defense (DOD) has far from a sterling reputation for financial discipline. It remains the sole federal agency to have not passed a clean audit under the Chief Financial Officers Act of 1990. The Marine Corps is the only one of the five DOD branches that has passed an audit, which it accomplished […]
Welcome to This Week in Waste, a series by Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) that highlights how taxpayer dollars are being wasted in the federal, state, and local levels of government, and efforts to fight back against this spendthrift behavior. President Trump’s Budget Proposal Cuts Hundreds of Billions in Spending President Trump sent his […]
The M10 Booker embodies fundamental failures of with Department of Defense acquisition, including the lack of critical analysis and when to stop wasting the taxpayer’s money. Start with what the Army first envisioned in 2013: A light tank to replace the retired M551 Sheridan that could support infantry with two of them airdropping from a […]
This Week in Waste highlights how taxpayer dollars are being wasted and efforts to fight back against this waste.
A Trump administration executive order would streamline defense procurement and prioritize existing private sector products.
DOD and DOGE are now looking at software licensing, which is one area that CAGW has noted needs closer scrutiny.
The F-35’s software development is plagued by underperformance and delays, raising serious concerns about the JSF’s reliability.
