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Robert Knauer (Stage name of ROBERT VALOR) Music Producer/Songwriter

Robert Knauer CPPO CPCM

Prior to writing and producing over 70 songs for the TAI Sound Machine Record label, and prior to writing 13 romance and murder novels, this former podcaster, Robert Knauer, better known by his stage name of ROBERT VALOR, was a former naval officer, professor of contracts and ethics, senior contracting officer for the federal government and was advisor to the FAA, DOD, DOL and DOT. Music groups he manages include for the time (Hanky Pankee- a Reggae group), Emy Day a pop and country singer, CV67

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20:37

The Pole Dancer that wanted to become a Federal...

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2022/11/27

Podcaster Robert Knauer CPCM CPPO, details the TRUE STORY about how he mentored and coached a nude stripper and pole dancer near Marine Corps base Cherry Point NC on how to apply for and what she had to do to become a federal contracting specialist in order to have a chance at a better life for her and her daughter. THIS IS TRUE AND GUT WRENCHING.

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21:09

Being GRATEFUL and Why you should be

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2022/11/25

Podcaster Robert Knauer describes his intimate details of his life and why he is so GRATEFUL for all that he is, has achieved and where he is in life for all that he has been through as a young man, teenager, college student, trainee, naval officer, senior government contracting official, owner and CEO of a DC Consulting firm and now in retirement.

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8:12

CONTRACTING WITH TWO-STEP SEALED BIDDING (THE BEST OF...

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2022/11/23

Professor of Contracts Robert Knauer CPPO CPCM talks about the Two-Step Sealed Bidding process using both FAR Parts 14 and 15 and how doing so using two-step sealed bidding in many cases gets the same outcomes as using only Part 15 and does so in much less time with much less effort. The best thing about using Two-Step Sealed bidding is there are literally NO PROTESTS.

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10:09

Get Out of my Office and Start Over or (Get the F___K...

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2022/11/14

Being a junior supply corps officer does NOT mean you are inferior to a senior officer. This short story about the 1st time I met LCDR. Kathleen O'Sullivan exemplifies what NOT to do when you do NOT know to whom you are speaking. Never assume you wield more power than someone else unless you know you truly do have the power. Case in point this junior supply corps officer to a senior female officer named KATHLEEN O'SULLIVAN.

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7:58

Did I want to possess classified docuements? Hell...

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2022/09/28

Podcaster, Robert Knauer, former Navy Supply Corps Lieutenant, Navy Supply Management Analyst explains how he was ordered by then Navy Supply Corps Commanding Officer Admiral Ebert and his XO then Captain Tully to deliberately possess and hold Top Secret documents knowing it was wrong, how he told his higher ups I didn't want to do it, and felt despair as to what to do without pissing off the commanding officer of NSC Norfolk. The case points to the recent issue of DONALD TRUMP knowingly possessing

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8:50

USS JFK & the case of the missing Seiko watches

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2022/09/26

Podcaster Robert Knauer, then Lt.(jg) Knauer, relays his time aboard the carrier Kennedy as disbursing and sales officer, and how Bazar Sales Inc, was the culprit behind over 400 Seiko watches coming up missing from inventory when the manufacturer shipped them to the JFK, and also how NIS was involved. A True Story.

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9:30

WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND IN WASHINGTON DC

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2022/09/26

Podcaster Robert Knauer discusses advice given him prior to his departure from DCMA for Washington DC to be "careful" in what he said to people. A preacher told me, "Bob whatever you say in DC will be overheard by someone and they will tell on you." Well...that all turned out to be true in my story about the Assistant Secretary of Finance and Admin at DOl when I referred to him as a little Hitler during a conference I attended. Word got back to Mary Peters (then SEC. of Transportion for DOT), and

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7:39

THE NAVY BURIAL AT SEA & SINKING A CASKET BY GUNFIRE

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2022/09/17

In a true to life horror story, Lt. Knauer recounts in 1976 during a special burial at sea detail that the MARDET (Marine Corps Detachment) was ordered to "open fire" with rounds to sink the wooden casket that was slowly sailing away from the ship because the holds to sink it had not been done properly and the weights were not properly installed to have the casket sink on que. That situation is what caused the MARDET CO to call on his men to open fire and sink the casket....all while the wife of the

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12:06

BEING INJURED & WHY FEDERAL EMPLOYEES CAN'T SUE THE...

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2022/09/17

In this episode of Robert Knauer describes a real life situation that was life-threatening and occurred at the Washington DC's Bureau of Engraving and Printing office in 2003, a situation where a rogue and undisciplined BEP police officer while not properly exercising due care and diligence nearly cost Robert Knauer his life because the "cop" was horsing around while on duty. THIS IS A TRUE STORY.

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10:47

ABOUT THE NOVEL "MURDER ON STEEL BEACH: A NAVY STORY"

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2022/09/17

AUTHOR ROBERT KNAUER explains how the development of his novel MURDER ON STEEL BEACH came to be, and how much of it is based on true to life events. The main difference he points out is the novel is a fictional account of a fictional ship and navy captain who gets murdered. The question is who did it and what the outcome is which only the reader can discern by reading the entire novel. @Amazon books and also at AUDIBLE.

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6:24

Get that 2 Degree list off of my ship and do it now...

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2022/09/17

In 1983 upon reporting to my cargo ship in Subic Bay, the Phillipines, I loaded the ship out with hundreds of thousands of pounds of fresh, frozen foods and vegetables along with consumable supplies and repair parts and when we finished the load out we discovered we had a 2-degree list on the ship. Normally one goes to the engineering officer to remove the list by simply shifting ballast. That did not happen because the skipper, Melvin D. Munsinger, gave explicit order for the chief engineer to

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22:19

2024 A TIME OF RECKONING FOR AMERICA- WHAT WILL YOU DO?

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2022/09/05

Podcaster, Robert Knauer, takes aim at what will happen if Donald Trump gets re-elected, what will happen to America and our government. He does this through talking about an article from "THE ATLANTIC" entitled "Trump’s Second Term Would Look Like This: The former president and his allies have explained their plans quite clearly" written by Jonathan Rauch. So impressed by article and how it makes all the pieces to the Trump Puzzle fit, I could not resist spilling these beans. Yes we all should be

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17:37

SHOULD AMERICA BE WORRIED ABOUT 2024? STORY ABOUT A...

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2022/06/27

Robert Knauer who is a former Republican, now Democrat and retired naval officer, federal contracting officer and CEO of a DC consulting firm discusses a recent meeting with a Trumper (Trump supporter) during a meeting to sell him a TREK bike. What took place was not only interesting, but exceedingly scary and saddening about the state of our nation, our adult lack of facts and intelligence and use of fake and misleading news......thus the result of the Attack on our Capitol on JAN 6. Listen to this

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10:55

WHAT THE F_@#%&%$# IS WRONG WITH AMERICA?

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2022/06/10

Robert Knauer discusses his views on America today, where it is headed, and what is needed to stop the slide. From Assault Weapons (guns), broken supply chains, jobs outsourced to China and the Asian basin are but a few of the factors that is making AMERICA the laughing stock of the world for just plain stupidity where our CONGRESS is to blame

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8:34

HUMPTY DUMPTY & THE CAMP FIRE GIRLS OF NAPLES IT

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2022/05/23

Podcaster Robert Knauer tells about his time in the U.S. Navy finding out about Humpty Dumpty and the Camp Fire Girls of Naples, Italy from his friend and mentor, Silvio Polidoro and his son Ernesto, while he was a young naval officer serving in the Mediiterranean and parts of Italy. Humpty Dumpty actually did sit on a wall, and Humpty Dumpty did have a very great fall.

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18:09

How I terminated a Government contractor for Default...

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2022/05/22

Professor Robert Knauer CPCM CPPO discusses the real life situation where he personally terminated a DC federal IT contractor for DEFAULT (due to discrimination against females) on a DOT contract he was in charge of .....and how the CEO and COO reacted when he notified them in person of the need to change their behavior in less than 10days. YES YOU REALLY CAN TERMINATE A CONTRACT FOR DEFAULT

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12:50

SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY (The Case of the Contracting...

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2022/05/22

Professor Robert Knauer CPCM CPPO tell a real life story about how a Navy Contracting Officer was terminated from federal service after routinely divulging many confidential contract secrets to his girlfriend (the enemy)..who worked for a competing government contractor. He was fired but nothing happened to her. Life and government contracting have rules to live by....he failed.

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16:22

DCMA's Can't Remember Shit program or (Contract...

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2022/05/22

Podcaster Robert Knauer talks about the time in the late 1990s at the Defense Contract Management Agency how an automated Contract Reconciliation System program was rammed down their throats without any Beta Testing. It did not work and thousands of man-hours were wasted/lost and millions of dollars pissed down the drain, that is....until Mr. Knauer stood up at a CRS conference and informed the nice people from headquarters that "We don't call it CRS--We call it the CAN'T REMEMBER SHIT PROGRAM"

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26:33

NAVY WHISTLEBLOWER--BECOMING A SHELLBACK--AND THE...

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2022/05/07

Navy Lieutenant Robert Knauer describes his experience as a true to life Navy Whistleblower prior to the TAILHOOK AFFAIR with Paula Kauflan. He blew the whistle on a corrupt and vile ships commanding officer who assisted in the Killing of Whales (endangered species), purposely colliding with a Korean trawler fishing fleet that killed several Korean fishermen, and by purposely holding a totally illegal and unsanctioned Shellback /WOG day initiation against CNO policy resulting in sailors being

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27:22

WIFE SWAPPING NAVY STYLE (LIFESPRING) & THE CO HAS A...

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2022/05/06

Lieutenant Knauer talks about his time at the Combat Systems Technical Schools Command (CSTSC) Mare Island, Vallejo, CA as a staff officer, the Supply Corps Ball, Wife Swapping CA style (with LIFE-SPRING), making the Navy like one's own home, and why the commanding officer loved me for getting him a CO Car that nobody else was able to obtain for him, and finally the day he thought he'd be golfing with the CNO of the U.S. Navy--joke was on me.

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