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Has program budgeting failed the world over?

January 22, 2020 Eric Lofgren 5

Program budgeting does not work anywhere in the world it has been tried. The reason for this failure can be deduced backward. What would it […]

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Acquisition workforce confined to a fishbowl

June 4, 2019 Eric Lofgren 0

Sixteen years ago, the National Commission on the Public Service (known as the “Second Volcker Commission”), reported that the federal government was not adequately staffed […]

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