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1. Transforming wartime contracting : controlling costs, reducing risks : final report to Congress : findings and recommendations for legislative and policy changes [2011]

Description
Book — 1 online resource (240 pages) : color illustrations
Summary
  • Agencies over-rely on contractors for contingency operations
  • "Inherently governmental" rules do not guide appropriate use of contractors in contingencies
  • Inattention to contingency contracting leads to massive waste, fraud, and abuse
  • Looming sustainment costs risk massive new waste
  • Agencies have not institutionalized acquisition as a core function
  • Agency structures and authorities prevent effective interagency coordination
  • Contract competition, management, and enforcement are ineffective
  • The way forward demands major reforms.
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2. At what cost? : contingency contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan : interim report to Congress [2009]

Description
Book — vi, 111 pages : digital, PDF file
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3. Lessons from the Inspectors General : improving wartime contracting : a hearing of the Commission on Wartime Contracting, Washington, DC, 2 February 2009 [2009]

Description
Book — 1 online resource (16 volumes)
Summary
Site includes transcript, list of witnesses, photographs, and videos of the hearings.
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4. Defense agencies must improve their oversight of contractor business systems to reduce waste, fraud, and abuse : special report on contractor business systems [2009]

  • [Arlington, VA] : Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan, [2009]
Description
Book — 1 online resource (10 p) : color illustrations.
Summary
  • Executive summary
  • Background
  • Findings
  • Findings summary
  • Recommendations for improvement
  • Conclusion.
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5. Lowest-priced security not good enough for war-zone embassies [2009]

  • Arlington, VA : Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan, [2009]
Description
Book — 1 online resource (6 p) : illustrations.
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6. Contingency contracting : further improvements needed in agency tracking of contractor personnel and contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan : statement before the Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan [2009]

  • Hutton, John P.
  • [Washington, D.C.] : U.S. Govt. Accountability Office, [2009]
Description
Book — 1 online resource (10 pages) : illustrations
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7. Operation Iraqi Freedom : preliminary observations on DOD planning for the drawdown of U.S. forces from Iraq : statement before the Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan [2009]

Description
Book — 1 online resource (25 pages) : illustrations
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