Brass Parachutes: Defense Contractors' Capture of Pentagon Officials Through the Revolving Door, by the Project on Government Oversight.

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Back in 2007, Congress passed a law requiring the Defense Department to maintain a database of former Pentagon officials and retired officers who seek employment with defense contractors called the "after government employment advice repository." That list is "incomplete, deeply flawed and kept secret from the public," according to the Project on Government Oversight, a nonprofit government watchdog.

So POGO created its own database, listing more than 380 former government officials and high ranking officers who have passed through the so-called "revolving door" over the past 10 years and snagged lucrative jobs with defense contractors--many joining the private sector before the end of the so-called one- to two-year "cooling off' period. Conflicts of interest...