Who: National Archives What: Awarded Lockhead Martin $317 million to create an archive for electronic records. The project has been in the works for six years to preserve multimedia documents for the public. However, the technological advances and delays within the company have raised the price to $567 million. Why it’s an outrage: There were several avoidable shortcomings in this project and now the Government Accountability Office estimates it will cost a total of $1.2 billion to $1.4 billion of federal money.