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DOGE May Recommend Contract Terminations, Contract Experts Say

DOGE May Recommend Contract Terminations, Contract Experts Say
Pictured is an aerial view of the Pentagon on May 15, 2023 (DoD Photo)

President Trump's administration took a page from an unlikely book--that of former President Obama, in creating the inaptly named Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). To get around the public meeting/comment and reporting requirements under the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) of 1972, the DOGE is not an advisory committee under FACA but instead a temporary organization under the new U.S. DOGE Service (USDS). The latter is a renaming of Obama's U.S. Digital Service--also USDS, created in 2014 to hire temporary…

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