Navient's selection as a finalist for the lucrative loan origination contract follows a series of moves by the Education Department that raise doubts about its commitment to police the company and its other contractors amid mounting evidence suggesting wrongdoing.
Transgender rights advocates took to HuffPost Live this week as pressure on President Barack Obama to sign an executive order which would extend Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA) protections to federal contractors continues to mount in Washington.
The $162 billion FY2008 supplemental spending bill passed in June provides significant breathing room to defense contractors in the case of a transition, but concerns are mounting about what will happen to bloated defense companies when the Iraq feed line is cut.
NEWS The Obama administration on Monday explicitly accused China's military of mounting attacks on American government computer systems and defense contractors, saying one motive could be to map "military capabilities that could be exploited during a crisis".
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Monday explicitly accused China's military of mounting attacks on American government computer systems and defense contractors, saying one motive could be to map "military capabilities that could be exploited during a crisis".
Although aid workers, contractors and security consultants have every right to enjoy themselves, there is mounting resentment among ordinary Afghans, who feel the West has been busier opening drinking holes than rebuilding their nation.
He engineered a risky and counterintuitive strategy: Instead of mounting a frontal assault on BP, he sued its drilling contractors, Halliburton and Transocean, in state court in Delaware, where they are incorporated.
"For City, Costs Are Mounting in Pre-K Effort" (front page, June 6) points a much-needed finger at private contractors lining their pockets at the expense of taxpayers and at-risk children.
John Brennan--CIA veteran, leader of an influential intelligence contractor industry association, and top national security advisor to the Obama campaign abruptly removed himself from consideration last Tuesday, citing mounting criticism over his role in Bush-era intelligence abuses.
The Pentagon and their war industry allies are mounting an aggressive, fear-based campaign of hyperbole and spin to scare Congress away from cuts that could affect contractor profits.
