TY  - BOOK
ED  - United States
TI  - Transforming wartime contracting: controlling costs, reducing risks : final report to Congress : findings and recommendations for legislative and policy changes
SN  - 9780160893179
PY  - 2011///]
CY  - Arlington, VA, Washington, DC
PB  - Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan, For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O.
KW  - Defense contracts
KW  - United States
KW  - Cost control
KW  - Local
KW  - Postwar reconstruction
KW  - Contracting out
KW  - Afghanistan
KW  - Logistics
KW  - Iraq
N1  - Shipping list no.: 2011-0443-P; "August 2011."; Includes bibliographical references; Agencies over-rely on contractors for contingency operations -- "Inherently governmental" rules do not guide appropriate use of contractors in contingencies -- Inattention to contingency contracting leads to massive waste, fraud, and abuse -- Looming sustainment costs risk massive new waste -- Agencies have not institutionalized acquisition as a core function -- Agency structures and authorities prevent effective interagency coordination -- Contract competition, management, and enforcement are ineffective -- The way forward demands major reforms
UR  - http://purl.fdlp.gov/GPO/gpo12192
UR  - http://www.wartimecontracting.gov/docs/CWC_FinalReport-lowres.pdf
ER  -