War for profit : Army contracting vs. supporting the troops / / Charles M. Smith

• Autore: Smith Charles M., CPCM
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Algora Pub., 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 284 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 355.6/2120973; 355.62120973
• Soggetto topico: Logistics - Contracting out - United States - Management - Evaluation; Iraq War, 2003-2011 - Logistics - Management; Iraq War, 2003-2011; Defense contracts - United States - Management - Evaluation; Letting of contracts - United States - Management
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preface; Do We Really Support the Troops?; What Is At Risk?; Questions of Loyalty and Responsibility; Background; My Relationship to the Army; Service Contracts; A Note on Contractual Interpretation; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1. Overrun by the Taliban, then by KBR; Setting the Stage; Field Support; A Fateful Suggestion; September 11 Changes Everything; Into Kuwait and Iraq; Forward to Baghdad; The Green Zone; Camps Slayer and Cropper; Camp Anaconda; Chapter 2. "Tooth to Tail"; Logistics; US Logistics after Vietnam; LOGCAP is Born ; Reality Intervenes: LOGCAP Immediately Diverges from Original Intent LOGCAP II: Down a Slippery Slope; Contractor vs. Army Cost Analysis; LOGCAP II and the Move to AMC; LOGCAP III: Sliding Away; Chapter 3. LOGCAP III; Government Contracts; Contract Types; Firm Fixed-Price Contracts (FFP); Cost Reimbursement Contracts; Cost-Plus-A-Percentage-Of-Cost Contracts; Cost-Plus-Award-Fee Contracts (CPAF); Cost-Plus-Award-Fee Contracts under LOGCAP; The LOGCAP Award Fee Plan; Organizational Structure for Award Fee Administration ; LOGCAP III and Support to Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom Chapter 4. Army Contracts and Reversed Incentives; Chapter 5. Negotiation, Settlement and Fee; Dining Facility Overcharges; Award Fee Boards; Army Award Fee Board Testimony; Impact of Army Award Fee Management; Use of Cost Type Contracts; Chapter 6. Dining Facilities, Fraud and Bribes; Poor Quality Meals; Fraud; Bribes; Bribery as a Prevalent Problem; False Claims; Chapter 7. Water Problems; Army Response; Chapter 8. Electrical Work; Washington International/Black and Veatch; KBR-MERO; Level A-B-C-Maintenance ; Actions of the Contracting Officer Forward Results; Other Electrocutions in Iraq; Investigations; Investigations Completed in the Everett Case; The Incident; Observations; Equipment; Site Visit; Government Contractor Involvement; Conclusions; Staff Sergeant Christopher Everett; More Moral Hazard; Chapter 9. Transportation; Empty Trucks on the Road; The April 9 Incident; Reefers; Other Transportation Contractors; Tactical Vehicle Maintenance; Chapter 10. The Struggle for Congressional Oversight; Henry Waxman and the House Committee on Oversight and Investigations ; Senator Byron Dorgan and the Senate Democratic Policy Committee Carl Levin and the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC); REP Andrews and the House Armed Services Committee; Senator Claire McCaskill and the Subcommittee on Contracting Oversight (SOCO); The Congressional Research Service (CRS); The Congressional Budget Office (CBO); The Government Accountability Office (GAO); Requesting an Investigation; The Commission on Wartime Contracting; What Has the Commission Actually Done?; Missed Opportunities in a Target Rich Environment ; (1) FAR 52.216-26, Payments of Allowable Costs before Definitization
• Sommario/riassunto: "WASHINGTON - The Army official who managed the Pentagon's largest contract in Iraq says he was ousted from his job when he refused to approve paying more than 1 billion in questionable charges to KBR..." (James Risen, New York Times, June 17, 2008). This book by that very Army official provides an eye-opening firsthand account of how the US Government hands over your tax dollars to support contractors like KBR and Halliburton, rather than supporting the troops.
• Titolo autorizzato: War for profit
• ISBN: 0-87586-929-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910786447603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II