The space agency is hoping to increasingly use competitions among top vendors and fixed-price contracts as a new way of conducting business--and cutting steep costs for major projects. NASA is working ...

“We saw that the cost-plus contracts that NASA had been using to develop the combined SLS and Orion system worked to the contractor’s rather than NASA’s advantage.” We found the cost-plus contracts ...

Several readers from the Defense Department have responded to our story about McCain and cost-plus contracts. In case you didn't catch it, during last week's presidential debates, Sen. John McCain ...

WASHINGTON — Lockheed Martin chief executive Jim Taiclet offered a warning during a quarterly earnings call this week, The government, he said, is putting too much risk on defense companies by flexing ...