The Department of Everything!
Senator Coburn of Oklahoma has put out a 74-page PDF entitled ” Department of Everything:
Department of Defense Spending That Has Little to Do With National Security”
Contents includes:
- Duplication and Lack of Coordination Means Taxpayers Can Pay Twice or Three Times for
- the Exact Same Research
- Bomb Detector Developed by the Family Business of the Agency Director Less Effective than
- “a Coin Flip” in Spotting Homemade Explosives
- To Boldly Go Where No Man Has Gone Before
- ‘Koo’ Use of Slang in Twitter Messages Reveals ‘Suttin’
- Is It Time for a Coffee Break? There’s an App for That!
- Pentagon Researchers Study Fish to Determine if Ignorance Can Save Democracy
- Pentagon Raids Weapons Program to Develop Beef Jerky Roll-ups
- Perception of Size Matters: Guys with Guns Appear Bigger, Stronger and More Masculine .
- Close Encounters and Space Weather
- DOD Hunts Ten Red Balloons
- Robots as Childrens’ Playmates
- First Bird Likely Had Black Feathers, Air Force Research Concludes
- The Science of Storytelling
- Washington Lobbyists and Politicians Use Defense Budget as a Trojan Horse for Political
- Pork
- Congressionally Directed DOD Medical Research Duplicates the Mission of Other Federal
- Agencies and May Result in Inefficient and Unnecessary Spending
- Dramatic Increases In Federal Medical Research Spending Makes Congressional Directed
- Medical Research Programs at the Pentagon Unnecessary
- Case Study – Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Virginia