Download or read book Contingency Contracting Observations on Actions Needed to Address Systemic Challenges Statement before the Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Contingency Contracting written by Paul L. Francis and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DOD faces a number of long-standing and systemic challenges that hinder its ability to achieve more successful acquisition outcomes -- obtaining the right goods and services, at the right time, at the right cost. These challenges include addressing the issues posed by DOD's reliance on contractors, ensuring that DOD personnel use sound contracting approaches, and maintaining a workforce with the skills and capabilities needed to properly manage acquisitions and oversee contractors. The issues encountered with contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan are emblematic of these systemic challenges, though their significance and impact are heightened in a contingency environment. GAO's concerns regarding DOD contracting predate the operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. GAO identified DOD contract management as a high-risk area in 1992 and raised concerns in 1997 about DOD's management and use of contractors to support deployed forces in Bosnia. In the years since then, GAO has continued to identify a need for DOD to better manage and oversee its acquisition of services. DOD has recognized the need to address the systemic challenges it faces, including those related to operational contract support. Over the past several years, DOD has announced new policies, guidance, and training initiatives, but not all of these actions have been implemented and their expected benefits have not yet been fully realized. While DOD's actions are steps in the right direction, DOD needs to (1) strategically manage services acquisition, including defining desired outcomes; (2) determine the appropriate mix, roles, and responsibilities of contractor, federal civilian, and military personnel; (3) assess the effectiveness of efforts to address prior weaknesses with specific contracting arrangements and incentives; (4) ensure that its acquisition workforce is adequately sized, trained, and equipped; and (5) fully integrate operational contract support throughout the department through education and predeployment training.
Download or read book At What Cost written by Michael J. Thibault and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2008 Congress established the Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan (CWC) in response to increasing indications of widespread waste, fraud, and abuse in gov¿t. contracting. The CWC is charged with evaluating and reporting on America¿s wartime contracting for logistics, reconstruction, and security. This Interim Report describes the CWCs work to June 2009, which includes hundreds of meetings and briefings, analysis of existing reports and audits, hearings on Capitol Hill, and factfinding trips to the theaters of operation. This Report highlights some timesensitive issues, especially given the challenges of the drawdown in Iraq and the buildup in Afghanistan. Charts and tables. This is a print on demand report.
Download or read book Contingency Contracting written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) is an independent agency that works for Congress. The GAO watches over Congress, and investigates how the federal government spends taxpayers dollars. The Comptroller General of the United States is the leader of the GAO, and is appointed to a 15-year term by the U.S. President. The GAO wants to support Congress, while at the same time doing right by the citizens of the United States. They audit, investigate, perform analyses, issue legal decisions and report anything that the government is doing. This is one of their reports.
Download or read book Transforming Wartime Contracting written by Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Contingency Contracting written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) is an independent agency that works for Congress. The GAO watches over Congress, and investigates how the federal government spends taxpayers dollars. The Comptroller General of the United States is the leader of the GAO, and is appointed to a 15-year term by the U.S. President. The GAO wants to support Congress, while at the same time doing right by the citizens of the United States. They audit, investigate, perform analyses, issue legal decisions and report anything that the government is doing. This is one of their reports.
Download or read book Contingency Contracting written by United States Government Accountability Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-01-11 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contingency Contracting: Agency Actions to Address Recommendations by the Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan
Download or read book Contingency Contracting written by U.s. Government Accountability Office and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-04 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "CWC's recommendaTechnology, and Lo determining which re addressing them to implement the reco Secretary for Manag address the CWC's r report was issued, th bureaus and offices was addressing the r does not have a for of the specific recom recommendations. T the efforts to addres Office of Acquisition agencywide procure other CWC recomm as each country hasIn response to your r planned actions that special reports-incl those recommendati considered applicabl CWC made to CongFor our review, we a total number of reco the CWC made in th the CWC made in its made in Special Rep3Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and A Contractors in Contingen"
Download or read book Contingency Contracting written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focuses on (1) how information on contractor personnel and contracts can assist agencies in managing and overseeing their use of contractors and (2) the status of DOD, State, and USAID's efforts to track statutorily-required information on contractor personnel and contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as recent recommendations to address the shortcomings identified in their efforts.
Download or read book Contingency Contracting written by John P. Hutton and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Congress established the Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan (CWC) in 2008 to assess contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan and provide recommendations to Congress to improve the contracting process. The CWC was directed by Congress to assess contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan for reconstruction, logistics, and security functions; examine the extent of waste, fraud, and abuse; and provide recommendations to Congress to improve various aspects of contingency contracting, including defining requirements and identifying, addressing, and providing accountability for waste, fraud, and abuse. DOD, State, and USAID have taken different management approaches for addressing the CWC's recommendations. This report determines whether DOD, State, and USAID have taken or planned actions that directly align with recommendations the CWC made in its final and last two special reports -- including those recommendations directed to one or more of the agencies and those recommendations not directed to a specific entity but that one or more of the agencies considered applicable to them, and also describes agency positions on recommendations the CWC made to Congress when the agencies provided their positions to us.
Download or read book The Final Report of the Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Readiness and Management Support and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Transforming Wartime Contracting written by United States. Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Operational Contract Support written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Contingency Contracting DoD State and USAID are Taking Actions to Track Contracts and Contractor Personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan written by John P. Hutton and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The DoD, State and the U.S. Agency for Internat. Dev¿t. (USAID) have relied extensively on contractors to support troops and civilian personnel and carry out reconstruction efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan. To help increase contractor oversight, DoD, State, and USAID signed a memorandum of understanding on contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan that identified a database to track info. on contractor personnel and contracts performed in the two countries. The agencies designated the Synchronized Pre-Deployment and Operational Tracker database (SPOT) as their system for tracking the required info. This testimony addresses how contractor personnel and contract info. can aid agencies in managing contracts and the status of SPOT¿s implementation.
Download or read book At What Cost written by Us Commission on Wartime Contracting and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-04-26 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2008 Congress established the Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan in response to increasing indications of widespread waste, fraud, and abuse in government contracting. The eight?member Commission is a bipartisan, independent entity charged with evaluating and reporting on America's wartime contracting for logistics, reconstruction, and security. The authorizing legislation directs the Commission to issue an Interim Report and a Final Report. This Interim Report to Congress describes the Commission's work to date, which includes hundreds of meetings and briefings, analysis of existing reports and audits, hearings on Capitol Hill, and fact?finding trips to the theaters of operation. This Report highlights some time?sensitive issues, especially given the challenges of the drawdown in Iraq and the buildup in Afghanistan. The Commission's Final Report to Congress will reflect the results of all of the Commission's work. It will include lessons learned and specific, actionable recommendations for permanent improvement in wartime contracting. More than 240,000 contractor employees currently provide critical support for U.S. contingency operations in the Southwest Asia area of responsibility, which includes Iraq and Afghanistan. Despite the difficulty of operating in these environments, military personnel, federal civilian employees, and private contractors have executed countless support tasks faithfully and well. Many have paid a personal price. As of May 27, 2009, 4,973 men and women of America's military and at least 13 civilian employees of the Department of Defense have died in Iraq and Afghanistan. Less publicized is the fact that more than 1,360 contractor employees - Americans, Iraqis, and third?country nationals - have also died in the two war zones. Tens of thousands more have been wounded. Criticisms of the contingency contract system and suggestions for reform in no way diminish their sacrifices. The Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan is committed to help ensure that contract support for future contingency operations is well planned, efficiently executed, and rigorously overseen so that it best supports America's military, diplomatic, and reconstruction efforts, and provides good stewardship of American taxpayers' dollars.
Download or read book Contingency Contracting Further Improvements Needed in Agency Tracking of Contractor Personnel and Contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan written by John P. Hutton and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a print on demand edition of a hard to find publication. Discusses ongoing efforts by the DoD, the Dept. of State (State), and the USAID to track info. on contractor personnel and contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan. The importance of such data is heightened by the unprecedented reliance on contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan and the evolving U.S. presence in the two countries. This statement focuses on: (1) how info. on contractor personnel and contracts can assist agencies in managing and overseeing their use of contractors; and (2) the status of DoD, State, and USAID¿s efforts to track statutorily-required info. on contractor personnel and contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as recent recommendations to address the shortcomings identified in previous reports. Charts and tables.
Download or read book Commission on Wartime Contracting written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
