Don Guttman said "the Pentagon responded in past decades by cutting their contract management forces and moving to hiring private companies." Even with the problems acknowledged, White predicted it would take years to clean it up. Then reports came in about abuse in an Iraqi prisoner camp. The story goes something like this. At the Abu Gharib prison camp, near Baghdad, “a contracted interrogator lied to investigators then instructed soldiers to abuse the prisoners” writes Matt Kelley of Associated Press. This is when the crack in the dam became a hole. The Pentagon tried to trace which contractor was responsible for the abusive interrogator and they couldn't. They could not determine the Army Entity that was contracted to manage interrogation for the incident. This means the Pentagon let the contract management get out of hand.
The Pentagon discovered the interrogator was originally employed by Premier Technology Group (which was contracted by the government), and this same company was bought out by CACI, another large contractor for wartime services. When CACI was questioned about the incident of abuse their response was, "We didn't know anything about it, the Pentagon had not apprised the company of any problems. In turn, the Pentagon reported they don't think the man charged of abuse was being paid under any of their contracts because his origin was from Premier Technology Group and their contract had lapsed when they were purchased by CACI.” OK, so no one is claiming the responsibility. Here's the question, who signed his check?
This story is an example of how contract layering has given corporate contractors a place to hide and muddied the water so chains of command are not clearly identifiable. The army tried to thin out contractors who were not efficient and contractors who were overpricing, but their hands were tied when they found they must have all details of a contract before the contractors could be dismissed.
Army secretary White said, "The details of the contracts just don't exist!"
Rumsfield is aware of the problem. It is his department, which has the charge to create rules, to manage 20,000 contractors, who are giving security to our professionals, and officers working in Iraq. His department has not completed the charge. Don Guttman, lawyer and contracting expert said, "Pentagon doesn't know how many people they have on the payroll working in Iraq... the contractors seem to be invisible, even those working at the top are hard to identify."
The abuse incident got good coverage on news networks in the US. It was an underlying symptom, of the big problem, the Pentagon has in providing management, and overseeing their contracts. This was just one of the evidences to let the Pentagon know something has to be done.
There were other signs when the 2002 investigations uncovered contractors overpricing and providing "shoddy" services.
One of the most widely talked about companies, Halliburton Co., should just change their business name to "Vice President Dick Cheney's former company." Of all the wartime profiteers, the Halliburton Co.'s name has been waved around in one identity or the other. No doubt, they have made their profits through overpricing on more than one contract and have been under investigation for kickbacks.
Don Guttman said, "The Pentagon responded in past decades by cutting their contract management forces and moving to hiring private companies." If that has been done, then might we say the plan didn't work or has it had time to be assessed? As White said, it would take years to correct their problems. Is this the evidence of the internal disease rupturing because it has gone on so long?
It is like an out of control disease in the Pentagon's system and now it demands attention. In business terms, it's, like a company that grew too fast and suffered the consequences of the internal workings not being able to keep up with the growth.
The government has needs for all types of jobs and career positions to be filled in Iraq. That's why they contract it all out and in a perfect world those companies would oversee their employees and return detailed reports to the government with their progress. To understand the great management task the army has before them, I have accumulated a list of jobs, broken down by job name that are contracted by the government. You can see advertisements for these jobs over the Internet with no difficulty.
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