The Twilight Zone: Post-Government Employment Restrictions Affecting Retired/Former Department of Defense Personnel

Abstract

There are five federal conflict of interest statutes that impose extensive albeit confusing restrictions on the post- government employment, and employment activities, of retired and former Department of Defense (DOD) personnel. An examination of these five statutes reveals that four of them should be repealed as obsolete to the congressional goal of safeguarding the integrity of the DOD procurement process in that they duplicate each other in purpose and unnecessarily complicate the DOD ethics program. This study provides a brief history, the legislative purpose, and the current application for each of the five statutes, and concludes with an analysis outlining why the four duplicative statutes should be repealed.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1993
Accession Number
ADA456703

Entities

People

  • Kathryn Stone

Organizations

  • The Judge Advocate General's Legal Center and School

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Congress
  • Contractors
  • Contracts
  • Court Martial
  • Department Of Defense
  • Employment
  • Government Employees
  • Government Procurement
  • Governments
  • Health Services
  • Law
  • National Governments
  • Personnel Management
  • President (United States)
  • Procurement
  • United States Government

Readers

  • Government and Public Administration Law.
  • Personnel Management and Statistics in the Military and Department of Defense
  • Systems Analysis and Design