Transforming wartime contracting [electronic resource] : controlling costs, reducing risks : final report to Congress : findings and recommendations for legislative and policy changes / Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Arlington, VA : Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan, [2011]

English

1 online resource (240 p.) : col. ill.

United States. Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan

1089 (online)

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.

Title from PDF title page (viewed on Aug. 31, 2011).
"August 2011."

Includes bibliographical references.

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