DOD Contracts Out Contractor Oversight

truthout.org — The Department of Defense (DOD) now employs contractors to keep contractors in check in Iraq, under a new framework for war industry management solidified last month. In April, the Pentagon split its largest military contract in Iraq — formerly belonging to the Houston-based former Halliburton subsidiary KBR, Inc. — among companies Fluor and DynCorp, in addition to KBR. Using contractors as a mediating step between contracted companies and the government creates a "potential for conflicts of interest, both organizational and personal," according to a recent Government Accountability Office report on the employment of contractors as "contract specialists," who analyze and evaluate contracts.

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