TY  - GEN
N2  - Over the past decade, America's military and federal-civilian employees, as well as contractors, have performed vital and dangerous tasks in Iraq and Afghanistan. Contractors' support however, has been unnecessarily costly, and has been plagued by high levels of waste and fraud. The United States will not be able to conduct large or sustained contingency operations without heavy contractor support. Avoiding a repetition of the waste, fraud, and abuse seen in Iraq and Afghanistan requires either a great increase in agencies' ability to perform core tasks and to manage contracts effectively, or a disciplined reconsideration of plans and commitments that would require intense use of contractors. Failure by Congress and the Executive Branch to heed a decade's lessons on contingency contracting from Iraq and Afghanistan will not avert new contingencies. It will only ensure that additional billions of dollars of waste will occur and that U.S. objectives and standing in the world will suffer. Worse still, lives will be lost because of waste and mismanagement.
AB  - Over the past decade, America's military and federal-civilian employees, as well as contractors, have performed vital and dangerous tasks in Iraq and Afghanistan. Contractors' support however, has been unnecessarily costly, and has been plagued by high levels of waste and fraud. The United States will not be able to conduct large or sustained contingency operations without heavy contractor support. Avoiding a repetition of the waste, fraud, and abuse seen in Iraq and Afghanistan requires either a great increase in agencies' ability to perform core tasks and to manage contracts effectively, or a disciplined reconsideration of plans and commitments that would require intense use of contractors. Failure by Congress and the Executive Branch to heed a decade's lessons on contingency contracting from Iraq and Afghanistan will not avert new contingencies. It will only ensure that additional billions of dollars of waste will occur and that U.S. objectives and standing in the world will suffer. Worse still, lives will be lost because of waste and mismanagement.
T1  - Transforming wartime contractingcontrolling costs, reducing risks : final report to Congress : findings and recommendations for legislative and policy changes /
DA  - [2011]
CY  - Arlington, VA :
CN  - United States. Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan
PB  - Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan,
PP  - Arlington, VA :
PY  - [2011]
N1  - Title from PDF title page (viewed on Aug. 31, 2011).
N1  - "August 2011."
ID  - 353906
KW  - Contracting out
KW  - Public contracts
KW  - Defense contracts
KW  - Iraq War, 2003-2011
KW  - Afghan War, 2001-
TI  - Transforming wartime contractingcontrolling costs, reducing risks : final report to Congress : findings and recommendations for legislative and policy changes /
LK  - http://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/gpo12192
UR  - http://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/gpo12192
ER  -