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… have been ignored. They asked the US ambassador and the US military commander in Iraq for their views. Neither replied. … public has not been getting value for money, while myriad contractors, bureaucrats and politicians - American and Iraqi … each. The ministry paid more than $300,000 over the top for 2500 bullet-proof vests. There is also the matter of …
… of Iraq's oil billions to the United States. When the U.S. military delivered the cash to Baghdad, the money passed into … into the hands of Iraqi ministries and American contractors. The Coalition of the Willing, as one commentator … before leaving government service in 1985. He was a top executive of a health institute in Oklahoma when, in …
… the delivery documents. The shipment was fairly typical: Military auditors would later calculate that roughly 46 … agreed to talk. Nawshin Shakir Qasim explained that the contractors did a really bad job and the roof was leaking. … of an optical instruments business in Dubai." While many top bureaucrats quit, he stayed on until he was kidnapped in …
… company, DRC of Mobile, Ala., has worked in support of the military and others as a subcontractor in Kuwait, Somalia and … establishes that the conduct of Custer Battles and top individuals associated with the firm "is of so serious or … it affects their present responsibility to be government contractors or subcontractors," the memo concludes. During …
… Technologies, TRW and Textron -- six are among the world's top 10 arms-producing companies. The Pentagon's spending on … terror" in Iraq and Afghanistan is keeping U.S. defense contractors alive. The fiscal 2006 defense budget is set to … missile defenses, integrated electronic combat systems and military space programs, projects sales for this year of up …
… and roads pursued by border patrol officers, security contractors, and law enforcement agents. Many of the would-be … the world's airline fleets. The company is also a major military contractor, manufacturing warplanes like the F-18 … instantly detect their entry. These cameras will sit on top of specially designed towers (erected by DRS Technologies …
… Iraq, and more than $50 billion of it has gone to private contractors hired to guard bases, drive trucks, feed and … and little evidence of postwar planning. With the American military stretched to the limit, the Pentagon set up the … began almost immediately. Col. Richard Ballard, the top inspector general for the Army in Iraq, was assigned to …
… the police were marred by poor coordination, civilian and military officials said. During the first two years of the … dispatching a total of 3,000 American soldiers and DynCorp contractors to train and mentor police recruits and officers … to what you are trying to teach them." David Dobrotka, the top civilian overseeing the DynCorp workers, said he did not …
… United for Fair Economy, that included an analysis of the top three dozen publicly traded companies whose work for the … attempt at government control over pay for public contractors. Since, it applies only to compensation costs … compensation for foregone vacation' and our 50,000 or so military personnel, who look forward to earned breaks, …
… stories favorable to American policies, or hire outside contractors without obvious ties to the Pentagon to organize … administration policies." The report also concludes that military planners are shifting away from the Cold War view … "to research and analyze information classified up to Top Secret/SCI/SI/TK/G/HCS" -- an extraordinarily high level …
… effort and allowing ill-qualified or corrupt contractors to dominate it. "They didn't have [monitoring] … 2003, he made clear, was not based on the kind of chaotic, top-heavy occupation that he says Bremer eventually installed … during Schmitz's tenure, and he noted that each of the military services has its own Inspector General's office. …