host: john hutton is our guest. we're here to talk about a recent report that came out last week looking at the bonuses given to government contractors. what prompted you to look into this issue? guest: i think the story starts back in 2005 and what we looked at back then is d.o.d. use of award contracts. and it might be helpful to set the stage of what this type of contract is. when the government buys services or other goods, there are situations where they must use a cost reimburseable contract. and in those situations, the government may look for ways that they can incentivize the contractor to provide a good quality service that meets schedule and all the needs of the government on type. and to do that because it's a cost type contract, the government wants to help provide incentives for the contractor itself to control the costs. so we want to look at this type of contractor because it was the purpose was to incentivize the contractors. so back in 2005 we looked at d.o.d. and we found that d.o.d. was paying aw

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