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June 17, 2013 By AMK

DOD must continue to educate military personnel to work with, manage civilian contractors, report says

Civilian contractors play a vital role in the Defense Department, but  experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan with contractor-related waste and  mismanagement led the military and Congress to rethink how they will be used in  future operations.

The military is reevaluating how it works with contractors, specifically  training officers to work with and better understand how contractors do their  jobs, a May 17 Congressional Research Service report  (.pdf) says.

The report found that contractors made up at least half of the deployed  forces in the Balkans, Iraq and Afghanistan. In March 2013, there were some  108,000 DoD contractors in Afghanistan, making up 62 percent of the total force.  Of this number, there were 18,000 private security contractors, compared to  65,700 U.S. troops. The report notes that many government officials and analysts  admit that the military is so reliant on civilian contractors that it cannot  carry out long term and many short-term operations without them.

Keep reading this article at: http://www.fiercegovernment.com/story/dod-must-continue-educate-military-personnel-work-manage-civilian-contracto/2013-05-29

Filed Under: Government Contracting News Tagged With: acquisition workforce, contract employee, contractor performance, DoD

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