Agencies Need Improved Financial Data Reporting for Private Security Contractors

Abstract

Section 842 of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2008 (Public Law 110-181), required SIGIR to, among other things, develop a plan to evaluate various characteristics of contracting for private security contractor services in Iraq. The objective of this report was to determine the extent to which federal agencies have systematically captured financial data for private security services in Iraq since 2003, and to identify private security contractors and costs. SIGIR reviewed available data from the Departments of Defense (DoD), State (DoS) and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). SIGIR recommends that the Secretaries of Defense and State and the Administrator, USAID, take the following actions: (1) Develop processes for routinely capturing financial information for all contracts and subcontracts for private security services and all other security related costs. (2) Direct program managers to consider the costs of security relative to the expected benefits for all new projects. (3) Identify security costs at the subcontractor level for all new projects. SIGIR also identifies a lesson learned applicable to other contingencies. The Department of Defense provided written comments and did not fully concur with the recommendations. The comments are addressed in the report where applicable, and a copy of their response is included in the report's Management Comments and Agency Response section. USAID and the Multi National Force-Iraq provided technical comments that are addressed where applicable in the report. The Department of State did not provide comments on this report.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 30, 2008
Accession Number
ADA489037

Entities

People

  • David R. Warren
  • James Shafer
  • Jason Venner
  • Lovell Q. Walls
  • Michael A. Bianco
  • Richard R. Kusman
  • Samson J. Wright
  • Waheed Nasser

Organizations

  • Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Contractors
  • Contracts
  • Databases
  • Department Of Defense
  • Department Of State
  • Engineering
  • Financial Management
  • Governments
  • Information Systems
  • Medical Personnel
  • National Security
  • Personnel Management
  • Physical Security
  • Private Military Companies
  • Procurement
  • Security

Fields of Study

  • Political science

Readers

  • Defense Financial Management and Audit.
  • Government Contracting/Procurement.
  • Military and Counterinsurgency Studies.