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Book Synopsis Need to Enhance Oversight of Theater-Wide Internal Security Services Contracts . by : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Download or read book Need to Enhance Oversight of Theater-Wide Internal Security Services Contracts . written by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Need to enhance oversight of theater-wide internal security services contracts .
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Download or read book Need to Enhance Oversight of Theater-wide Internal Security Services Contracts written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report discusses the Department of Defense's (DoD) Theater-Wide Internal Security Services (TWISS) contracts for labor, weapons, equipment, and other essentials to augment and/or replace military security guard operations at forward operating bases and camps throughout Iraq. Altogether, DoD awarded TWISS contracts in September 2007, with a combined not-to-exceed value of $450 million, to five companies: Aegis Defence Services, Limited;1 EOD Technology, Inc.; Sabre International Security; Special Operations Consulting- Security Management Group; and Triple Canopy, Inc. The companies are among the seven largest private security service providers in Iraq. The five contractors participating in TWISS each received a $250,000 task order obligation to meet the guaranteed minimum and initiate the contract; the contractors then competed to provide security services at various locations in Iraq. Between February 2008 and March 2009, 50 task orders had been issued to the companies. This report responds to the mandate in the National Defense Authorization Act for 2008 (Public Law 110-181) that requires audits of the performance of security functions to address the manner in which contract requirements were developed and contracts or task orders were awarded, and the manner in which DoD exercised control over the performance of contractors. The TWISS contracts and subsequent task orders were awarded by the Joint Contracting Command- Iraq/Afghanistan (JCC-I/A) on behalf of Multi-National Force-Iraq (MNF-I). To provide oversight of the contracts, JCC-I/A delegated contract administration and oversight to the Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA). The task orders set forth specific security services that are required. DCMA uses Contracting Officer Representatives (CORs) to conduct day-to-day oversight of the contractors' performance and compliance with contract requirements. CORs are selected by the installation command and report to DCMA and the contracting officer.
Book Synopsis Control Weaknesses Remain in Oversight of Theater-Wide Internal Security Services Contracts . by : CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Download or read book Control Weaknesses Remain in Oversight of Theater-Wide Internal Security Services Contracts . written by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-07-07 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Control weaknesses remain in oversight of theater-wide internal security services contracts .
Author :United States. Congress. House. Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :184 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis Commission on Wartime Contracting by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs
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:
Book Synopsis At What Cost? by : Michael J. Thibault
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.
Book Synopsis Outsourcing the Global War on Terrorism by : G. Lovewine
Download or read book Outsourcing the Global War on Terrorism written by G. Lovewine and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-04-09 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The US military strategy in Iraq and Afghanistan made use of private military and private security companies on an unprecedented scale. In this environment, actions and operations can greatly affect the efficacy of the US military - creating unintended diplomatic and tactical consequences.
Download or read book Federal Register written by and published by . This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Contracting Oversight Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :158 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (318 download)
Book Synopsis Interagency Contracts, Part I and II by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Contracting Oversight
Download or read book Interagency Contracts, Part I and II written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Contracting Oversight and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Patriots for Profit by : Thomas Bruneau
Download or read book Patriots for Profit written by Thomas Bruneau and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2011-07-18 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book develops a new approach to the analysis of civil-military relations by focusing on the effectiveness of the armed forces in fulfilling roles & missions, and on their efficiency in terms of cost. The approach is applied to the United States using official documents and interviews with policy-makers. In addition to analyzing the impact of defense reform initiatives over the past thirty years, the book includes the recent phenomenon of "contracting-out" security that has resulted in greater numbers of contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan than uniformed military personnel. While the book demonstrates that democratic civilian control of the military in the U.S. is not at issue, it reveals that there is little public control over Private Security Contractors due to a combination of the current restricted interpretation of what is an "inherently governmental function" and limited legal authority. This is despite the fact that PSCs have taken on roles and missions that were previously the responsibility of the uniformed military. Further, despite numerous efforts to redress the problem, current political and institutional barriers to reform are not likely to be overcome soon.
Author :Christopher Kinsey Publisher :Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research ISBN 13 :9948142209 Total Pages :14 pages Book Rating :4.9/5 (481 download)
Book Synopsis The Transformation of War by : Christopher Kinsey
Download or read book The Transformation of War written by Christopher Kinsey and published by Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research. This book was released on 2009-06-15 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The role of contractors in war is not new. The English Ordnance Department, which was responsible for supplying war materials to the King, is older than the British Army. Britain was no different from any other European country in using contractors to supply its overseas expeditions. From 1000 to 1800 virtually all European armies relied on contractors to support their war fighting efforts. Only when states started to move towards total war did the supply role of contractors diminish as militaries began to become self-sufficient. While it is recognized that different types of contractors now operate in the military’s operational space, this paper focuses on those supplying support functions to the military. These functions range from catering and laundry facilities, waste management, postal services, troop welfare and recreational activities to private security companies (PSCs). PSCs have had a significant impact on the ability of logistical contractors to deliver capability to the military in theater and in the case of the US military, PSCs are increasingly being seen as an alternative to troops employed in force protection roles such as guarding military camps and protecting convoys. By contracting out of these roles, PSCs influence – although not intentionally, it must be said – the military’s strategy in theater, freeing up soldiers, for example, who can then be redeployed for combat operations. This paper is divided into four parts: the first simply defines what is meant by war fighting and identifies which military tasks fall under the war-fighting banner or outside it in the case of logistical support. The second part gives a brief account of the role of contractors in support of military operations during the Cold War, which is widely seen as a period in which militaries were self-sufficient. However, the reality was somewhat different since it was during this period that contractors began to take on roles that in the past were deemed the responsibility of the military. What appeared different during the Cold War was that the contracting out of support functions was confined to home bases and had not yet reached the front line. The third part explains why states now feel the need to turn to contractors for support in expeditionary operations, while the final part examines the socio/political, economic and technological forces driving this change. It should also be noted that this paper is concerned mainly with the UK and US militaries, for the simple reason that these forces have gone the furthest in contracting out their logistical support in the operational space.
Book Synopsis Outsourcing War and Peace by : Laura Anne Dickinson
Download or read book Outsourcing War and Peace written by Laura Anne Dickinson and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely book describes the services that are now delivered by private contractors and the threat this trend poses to core public values of human rights, democratic accountability, and transparency. --
Author :United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Contracting Oversight Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :120 pages Book Rating :4.:/5 (318 download)
Book Synopsis Allegations of Waste, Fraud, and Abuse in Security Contracts at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Contracting Oversight
Download or read book Allegations of Waste, Fraud, and Abuse in Security Contracts at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Ad Hoc Subcommittee on Contracting Oversight and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :100 pages Book Rating :4.F/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Quarterly Report and Semiannual Report to the United States Congress by : United States. Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction
Download or read book Quarterly Report and Semiannual Report to the United States Congress written by United States. Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction and published by . This book was released on with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis National Defense by : U S Government Accountability Office (G
Download or read book National Defense written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GAO completed a review of the security requirements and administration of Department of Defense (DOD) carve-out contracts as part of its continuing review of national security information. Carve-out contracts are those special access contracts for which the Defense Investigative Service (DIS) has been relieved of security inspection responsibility and the cognizant DOD component is responsible for security inspections and administration. GAO found that an ever-increasing number of carve-out contracts has become a problem for contractor security administrators because the contracts result in a multiplicity of security requirements, in addition to those prescribed by the DOD Industrial Security Manual. The exact number of carve-out contracts is unknown, but GAO estimated that there are probably several thousand such contracts; some contracts were given carve-out status for reasons other than security, and other carve-out contracts were not inspected by anyone.
Book Synopsis Contract management by : United States. General Accounting Office
Download or read book Contract management written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With annual obligations for goods and services totaling $1.7 billion, the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) is one of the largest of 23 entities coming into the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). INS's procurement organization will continue to acquire goods and services under DHS. GAO was asked to review INS's contracting processes to assess whether INS has an adequate infrastructure to manage its acquisitions and to determine whether INS is following sound contracting policies and procedures in awarding and managing individual contracts. INS does not have the basic infrastructure--including oversight, information, and an acquisition workforce--in place to ensure that its contracting activity is effective. Oversight of procurement is difficult because procurement managers are placed at a low level within the organization, and they do not have the leverage to hold employees across the agency accountable for compliance with procurement policies. Further, procurement activities are not coordinated well because INS has not made effective use of cross-functional teams--consisting of procurement, program, budget, financial, and legal representatives--throughout the acquisition process. Procurement managers are unable to make strategic decisions that would allow them to maximize spending power across the agency because INS's information systems do not provide visibility into what is being spent agencywide for goods and services and who the major vendors are. INS's acquisition workforce is struggling to manage effectively large and mission-critical procurements. Despite growth in mission requirements and the overall workforce during the past decade, the agency has not been able to attract and retain the necessary contracting staff. Further, INS lacks a strategic acquisition workforce plan to help identify the knowledge, skills, and abilities the agency needs to ensure it can meet current and future requirements. In addition, acquisition planning, competition, and contractor monitoring have been inadequate on some large contracts. The lack of adequate advanced planning for several detention center contracts and one large information technology management contract limited opportunities for full and open competition. Contractor performance monitoring has, in some cases, been inadequate to provide assurance that INS received the goods or services it paid for or that quality standards were met. GAO did not find significant or widespread compliance problems with other contract criteria we reviewed. Because INS has become a significant part of DHS and brings with it a procurement function that needs attention, it is imperative for DHS leadership to address these problems early in the development of the new department.
Author :United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :256 pages Book Rating :4.0/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Management and Oversight of Contingency Contracting in Hostile Zones by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security
Download or read book Management and Oversight of Contingency Contracting in Hostile Zones written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author :United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Publisher : ISBN 13 : Total Pages :168 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis An Uneasy Relationship by : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
Download or read book An Uneasy Relationship written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
