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I had an interview with Jack Pendergrass, who is a researcher, artist and alienated father who is exposing non government organizations like the military industrial complex’s NGO company called Maximus Inc.
MAXIMUS was founded in 1975 by David V Mastran, a Vietnam Vet and former employee of the US Dept of Health, Education and Welfare. He has also been linked to the MITRE Corporation’s secretive group JASON; an elite group of scientists who have been advisors to the Defense Department, the CIA and other governmental agencies. This group was exposed in the Pentagon Papers, has been called ‘mad scientists’ and was once called out as war criminals.
Maximus secured the nation’s first privatized welfare contract in 1987, in Los Angeles County and secured Wisconsin among the first states to contract with Maximus to run welfare-to-work programs in the 1990s. Privatization of social services was brought in by the Clinton Administration. Clinton’s pledge to “end welfare as we know it” became “an all-purpose elixir” on the 1992 campaign trail, wrote Jason DeParle, a New York Times reporter who covered welfare reform. Maximus contracts for social programs went from $19 million in 1998 to $2.5 billion by 2018 in revenue.
Maximus grew fast. It developed welfare-to-work programs, from hiring caseworkers to designing metrics to assess those workers and get them paid. It devised ways of managing child support enforcement, consulted with governments on cost-cutting measures, and dipped its toe into prison services. It ran contracts in Africa and Latin America and for the World Bank and the US Agency for International Development, and it oversaw workforce programs in Israel and Australia. Mastran built on the lesson he’d learned in the Nixon administration—that programs claiming to reduce fraud were an easy sell across the political spectrum. “We got more business from the Democrats” than the Republicans, says Mastran, who now runs an educational software company in Nashville.
Since 1975, Maximus, Inc, based in Arlington, Virginia has quietly amassed massive amounts of power and control throughout the world. They are often awarded contracts worth millions of dollars for which there were no competitors. They operate worldwide government health and human services programs (and many others) on a global basis with no oversight. With over 400 subsidiaries world wide, you would be hard pressed to find an industry that wasn’t affected by Maximus.
To paraphrase founder David Mastran: “We laid the blueprints for government privatization” So why might this be a concern? MAXIMUS has single-handedly changed the face of “government administered” programs; for state, federal, and even other countries in which they operate. They often receive no-bid contracts worth billions of dollars, all to be administered with less oversight and out of the eye of public opinion. In this way, they have the potential to essentially subvert entire aovernments.
In late January 1968, Operation Igloo White was launched in Vietnam. DARPA had recruited Mastran as one of the key analysts for this project in which biosensors, computers and communications relay sought to automate warfare. This tech became part of MAXIMUS in later years.The PROMIS system (Prosecutor’s Management Information System) is another key component. It is a computer-based management information system designed to track arrests, defendants, charges, cases, court events, and witnesses through the judicial process.
With 49K employees and clients such as these (just to name a few), MAXIMUS (Latin for “greatest” or “largest”) certainly lives up to its name!