Contingency Contracting. DOD, State, and USAID Continue to Face Challenges in Tracking Contractor Personnel and Contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan

Abstract

The Departments of Defense (DOD) and State and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) have relied extensively on contractors to provide a range of services in Iraq and Afghanistan, but as GAO has previously reported, the agencies have faced challenges in obtaining sufficient information to plan and manage their use of contractors. As directed by the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year (FY) 2008, GAO analyzed DOD, State, and USAID data for Iraq and Afghanistan for FY 2008 and the first half of FY 2009 on the (1) status of agency efforts to track information on contracts and contractor personnel; (2) number of contractor personnel; (3) number of killed and wounded contractors; and (4) number and value of contracts and extent to which they were awarded competitively. GAO reviewed selected contracts and compared personnel data to other available sources to assess the reliability of agency-reported data.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2009
Accession Number
ADA507894

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Government Accountability Office

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Afghanistan
  • Civilian Personnel
  • Congress
  • Contractors
  • Contracts
  • Department Of Defense
  • Department Of State
  • Employment
  • Governments
  • House Of Representatives
  • Management Personnel
  • Military Aircraft
  • National Security
  • Personnel Management
  • Unified Combatant Commands
  • United States Central Command
  • United States Government

Readers

  • Government Contracting/Procurement.
  • Military and Counterinsurgency Studies.