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Book Feasibility of a Joint Engineering and Logistics Contract

Download or read book Feasibility of a Joint Engineering and Logistics Contract written by Maria J. Dowling and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Halliburton s Army

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  • Author : Pratap Chatterjee
  • Publisher : Bold Type Books
  • Release : 2010-03-23
  • ISBN : 0786743697
  • Pages : 306 pages

Download or read book Halliburton s Army written by Pratap Chatterjee and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2010-03-23 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Halliburton'sArmy is the first book to show, in shocking detail, how Halliburton really does business, in Iraq, and around the world. From its vital role as the logistical backbone of the U.S. occupation in Iraq -- without Halliburton there could be no war or occupation -- to its role in covering up gang-rape amongst its personnel in Baghdad, Halliburton'sArmy is a devastating bestiary of corporate malfeasance and political cronyism. Pratap Chatterjee -- one of the world's leading authorities on corporate crime, fraud, and corruption -- shows how Halliburton won and then lost its contracts in Iraq, what Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld did for it, and who the company paid off in the U.S. Congress. He brings us inside the Pentagon meetings, where Cheney and Rumsfeld made the decision to send Halliburton to Iraq -- as well as many other hot-spots, including Somalia, Yugoslavia, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, Guantámo Bay, and, most recently, New Orleans. He travels to Dubai, where Halliburton has recently moved its headquarters, and exposes the company's freewheeling ways: executives leading the high life, bribes, graft, skimming, offshore subsidiaries, and the whole arsenal of fraud. Finally, Chatterjee reveals the human costs of the privatization of American military affairs, which is sustained almost entirely by low-paid unskilled Third World workers who work in incredibly dangerous conditions without any labor protection. Halliburton'sArmy is a hair-raising exposéf one of the world's most lethal corporations, essential reading for anyone concerned about the nexus of private companies, government, and war.

Book Contractors on Deployed Military Operations

Download or read book Contractors on Deployed Military Operations written by Matthew Uttley and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Contractors on Deployed Military Operations  United Kingdom Policy and Doctrine

Download or read book Contractors on Deployed Military Operations United Kingdom Policy and Doctrine written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the Cold War, the United States and United Kingdom (UK) armed services have undergone significant transformation in response to the radically altered threat environment, new operational demands, and reduced defense budgets. Central to this transformation in both states is an expanded role for private contractors in providing deployed support functions traditionally conducted by uniformed personnel. Despite the similar direction of military reform, the U.S. armed services' approach to battlefield outsourcing has undergone extensive public scrutiny and debate, whereas UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) initiatives have hitherto attracted comparatively little independent assessment. Close U.S.-UK military cooperation over recent years in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the likelihood that both states will remain close allies in future interventions, suggest that the UK MoD's approach to deployed contractor support is a salient issue for U.S. military planners. This monograph analyzes the MoD's outsourcing strategy and identifies those aspects of UK policy and doctrine that warrant consideration by the Department of Defense (DoD) and U.S. armed services. Evaluation of the performance of MoD outsourcing policy and doctrine against measures of cost effectiveness and operational effectiveness reveals two broad observations. The MoD has developed a number of novel command and control mechanisms that have succeeded in rationalizing and removing the risk in commercial battlefield support. But the data necessary to evaluate the real impact of deployed outsourcing have yet to enter the public domain. Similarly, questions remain about the relative cost-effectiveness of organic military provision and contractor alternatives. Comparative analysis indicates that there are no fundamental differences in overarching MoD and DoD outsourcing philosophy, but there are specific MoD initiatives that could enhance the U.S. armed services' ability to manage their deployed contractor support. 7.

Book Empire   s Labor

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  • Author : Adam D. Moore
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2019-11-15
  • ISBN : 1501716395
  • Pages : 263 pages

Download or read book Empire s Labor written by Adam D. Moore and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a dramatic unveiling of the little-known world of contracted military logistics, Adam Moore examines the lives of the global army of laborers who support US overseas wars. Empire's Labor brings us the experience of the hundreds of thousands of men and women who perform jobs such as truck drivers and administrative assistants at bases located in warzones in the Middle East and Africa. He highlights the changes the US military has undergone since the Vietnam War, when the ratio of contractors to uniformed personnel was roughly 1:6. In Afghanistan it has been as high as 4:1. This growth in logistics contracting represents a fundamental change in how the US fights wars, with the military now dependent on a huge pool of contractors recruited from around the world. It also, Moore demonstrates, has social, economic, and political implications that extend well beyond the battlefields. Focusing on workers from the Philippines and Bosnia, two major sources of "third country national" (TCN) military labor, Moore explains the rise of large-scale logistics outsourcing since the end of the Cold War; describes the networks, infrastructures, and practices that span the spaces through which people, information, and goods circulate; and reveals the experiences of foreign workers, from the hidden dynamics of labor activism on bases, to the economic and social impacts these jobs have on their families and the communities they hail from. Through his extensive fieldwork and interviews, Moore gives voice to the agency and aspirations of the many thousands of foreigners who labor for the US military. Thanks to generous funding from UCLA and its participation in TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem), the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access volumes from Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu/cornell-open) and other repositories.

Book Terrorism

Download or read book Terrorism written by Robert A. Friedlander and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An extensive collection of significant documents covering all major and minor issues and events regarding terrorism. Government reports, executive orders, speeches, court proceedings, and position papers are presented in full text reprint." (Oceana Website)

Book Annual Department of Defense Bibliography of Logistics Studies and Related Documents

Download or read book Annual Department of Defense Bibliography of Logistics Studies and Related Documents written by United States. Defense Logistics Studies Information Exchange and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 1070 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Army RD   A

Download or read book Army RD A written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professional publication of the RD & A community.

Book Program Manager

Download or read book Program Manager written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book NASA SP 7500

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  • Author : United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
  • Publisher :
  • Release :
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 148 pages

Download or read book NASA SP 7500 written by United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration and published by . This book was released on with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Army Research and Development

Download or read book Army Research and Development written by and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Feasibility of a Joint Engineering and Logistics Contract

Download or read book Feasibility of a Joint Engineering and Logistics Contract written by Maria J. Dowling and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-08-15 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Army, Air Force, and Navy currently manage their own separate engineering and logistics contracts for employing civilian contractors as a force multiplier during military operations. Civil augmentation contracts afford flexibility when the services are limited by the availability of manpower resources during contingency operations. Allocation of military forces is often constrained by other contingency commitments, inactivation of reserve components, and political considerations with a host nation. The Army first awarded the Logistics Civil Augmentation Program (LOGCAP) contract in 1992. The Navy awarded the Construction Capabilities Contract (CONCAP) in 1995 and the Air Force followed suit with the Air Force Contractor Augmentation Program (AFCAP) contract in 1997. A General Accounting Office (GAO) report published in 1997, however, questioned the validity of executing three separate contracts and stated that it might be more “effective and efficient” if one service acted as the lead executive agent to eliminate duplication of services. The GAO report also noted that existing military doctrine was vague in addressing how to integrate contractor resources properly with the military force structure during contingency situations. This research paper addresses two of the important questions raised in the GAO report regarding the use of contractors in support of joint military operations. First, will a joint engineering and logistics service contract provide the combatant and service commanders any benefit over maintaining individual Navy, Army, and Air Force service augmentation contracts? Second, does current joint doctrine adequately address the use of contractor services in support of contingency and wartime operations? If not, what information should be included in future joint doctrine? In conducting our research, we performed in-depth comparative analyses of the Army's LOGCAP and Air Force's AFCAP contracts, but the Navy CONCAP contract was not analyzed in depth because of its limited scope. We conducted interviews with key government personnel affiliated with the Army and Air Force contracts to include the AFCAP and LOGCAP program managers and contracting staffs. We also performed historical research using source material from several Department of Defense agencies. This research project provides an objective review of the benefits and drawbacks of the Army's LOGCAP and Air Force's AFCAP contracts. Since the scope of the two contracts is similar, it is our recommendation that a joint civil augmentation program (JCAP) contract be established that will meet the needs of both services while eliminating duplication of effort. For JCAP to be a viable option, joint doctrine must be developed to provide guidance on when and how to use a civil augmentation contract during military operations.

Book Army RD   A Bulletin

Download or read book Army RD A Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 754 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Management

Download or read book Management written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 784 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book GAO Documents

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  • Author : United States. General Accounting Office
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1979
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 828 pages

Download or read book GAO Documents written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catalog of reports, decisions and opinions, testimonies and speeches.