There’s a common term in Washington, D.C. — “beltway bandit”. A beltway bandit is any of the thousands of consulting and services firms whose essential business model is to exploit political connections to obtain government contracts. A lot of that business depends on having the customer’s confidence that any reports resulting from those contracts will do two things. First, the reports will say exactly what the customer agency thinks is in their best interest, and second, that the contracting agency’s goals can only be met if it receives substantially increased funding.
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The Daily Wire recently reported on the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP), which was “established by Congress in 1990 to coordinate federal research and investments in understanding and responding to the
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