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DOD Adopts Final Rule Concerning Contractors
DoD has adopted as final, with changes, an interim rule amending the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) to implement DoD policy regarding contractor personnel authorized to accompany U.S. Armed Forces deployed outside the United States.
Friday, April 4, 2008
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Pentagon Asserts Authority Over Contractors
Five years into the Iraq War, the most heavily outsourced war in history, the Pentagon has issued a memorandum clearly giving authority of military commanders over the civilian contractors in their areas of operation.
Friday, March 28, 2008
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Government Reform panel passes contractor database bill
A bill to set up a public database on federal contractor performance and misconduct won approval Thursday from the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee despite Republican concerns the measure could allow unfair attacks on contractors as well as end up barring large companies from receiving government contracts.
Saturday, March 15, 2008
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Army creates new command to improve purchasing in war zones and at home
The Army is ordering a major overhaul of the way it buys supplies for troops in combat zones as the number of criminal investigations into wartime contract fraud nears triple figures. Chief among the moves is the formation of a new contracting command to better manage military purchasing in Iraq, Afghanistan and Kuwait.
Friday, February 29, 2008
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Iraq Security Guards Getting New Rules
Under pressure to exercise greater control over private security contractors in Iraq, Bush administration officials outlined stricter rules for these armed guards during a three-hour meeting Wednesday at the Pentagon with 20 companies.
Saturday, February 23, 2008
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Will Contractors Lose Iraq Immunity?
The days of legal immunity for civilian contractors in Iraq may be numbered, as Washington and Baghdad prepare to renegotiate a long-term bilateral security agreement.
Friday, February 15, 2008
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Senate Votes to Expand Privacy Rights to Americans Abroad
In passing the FISA Amendments Act of 2007 (S.2248), the U.S. Senate yesterday voted to approve one of the largest expansions of privacy rights in the last thirty years. S.2248 which makes a number of changes to U.S. surveillance law contains a provision originally written by U.S. Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) that will ensure that Americans who travel outside the United States possess the same privacy rights that they enjoy on U.S. soil.
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
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Pentagon gives Iraq security contractors new rules
Under pressure to exercise greater control over private security contractors in Iraq, Bush administration officials outlined stricter rules for these armed guards during a three-hour meeting Wednesday at the Pentagon with 20 companies.
Thursday, January 31, 2008
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Bush backs away from military contractor investigation
President Bush warned on Tuesday that he may disregard several portions of a massive defense policy bill he signed just one day earlier, including provisions creating a commission to investigate the use of civilian contractors such as Blackwater in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
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Parsons Failures in Iraq Are Found to Have Been More Widespread
Rebuilding failures by one of the most heavily criticized companies working in Iraq, the American construction giant Parsons, were much more widespread than previously disclosed and touched on nearly every aspect of the company’s operation in the country, according to a report released Monday by a federal oversight agency.
Tuesday, January 29, 2008
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ITT Twice Paid for Same Work
A defense contractor hired to repair combat equipment at Camp Arifjan in Kuwait routinely failed to do the job right and then charged the government millions of dollars for the extra work needed to get the gear ready for battle in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a newly released audit by the GAO. ITT spokesman Tom Glover said the company does not agree with the GAO's conclusions.
Saturday, January 26, 2008
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DOD Proposes Mandatory 'Law of War' Training for Contractors
The Pentagon has proposed an amendment to federal acquisition regulations that would require all defense contractors deploying overseas to have a basic understanding of the international laws of war, according to a Federal Register notice published recently.
Tuesday, January 22, 2008
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Rights group finds will to prosecute contractors lacking
An international human-rights organization said Wednesday that a lack of political will -- not a fuzzy legal framework -- should be primarily blamed for the dearth of prosecutions against private security contractors accused of abuses in Iraq. Paul Bresson, a spokesman for the Department of Justice, said the problem has nothing to do with political will. "We strongly disagree with the report's conclusions," he said.
Thursday, January 17, 2008
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Management of Iraq war support contracts moved from troubled Kuwait office to Illinois
Oversight for nearly $4 billion in Iraq war contracts has been shifted from a troubled procurement office in Kuwait to an Army organization in Illinois as part of an ongoing effort to curb waste, fraud and abuse in military purchasing. The largest of the dozen contracts now being managed by Sustainment Command is held by Combat Support Associates.
Wednesday, January 16, 2008
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