Panel sees waste in contractors

From: The Washington Times | March 30, 2010 

The federal government probably is paying for millions of dollars worth of unneeded work by contractors in Iraq because the military is providing inadequate guidance to companies about drawing down their work forces as U.S. troops leave, commissioners on the independent Commission on Wartime Contracting said Monday. Each contracted employee can cost thousands of dollars a month, and about 100,000 contracted employees work in Iraq. Much of the emphasis at a commission hearing was on Houston-based KBR Inc., the largest contractor in the country, which recently won a new contract potentially worth more than $2 billion for support work in ...

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