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National Defense December 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	For Contractors in War Zones, Business Will Keep Growing The constant sniping in Washington about military contractors ignores the inescapable conclusion that the privatization of government functions not only is here to stay, but is going to get bigger.
BusinessWeek July 31, 2006 Dawn Kopecki	When Outsourcing Turns Outrageous The U.S. Military has lost billions to fraud and mismanagement by private contractors in Iraq who do everything from cooking soldiers' meals to building hospitals to providing security. That raises a question: Does Pentagon outsourcing make sense?
National Defense August 2010 McQuade & Jack	New Rule Proposed For Organizational Conflicts of Interest The Defense Department issued a proposed rule to amend the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement to impose uniform guidance and tighten existing regulations on organizational conflicts of interest.
National Defense June 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	More Services, Less Hardware Define Current Military Buildup In the midst of the largest military expansion since the Reagan administration, industry analysts warn that the gravy days cannot last much longer.
National Defense November 2006 James A. Hughes	Blended Workforce Poses Conflict of Interest Risks The Acquisition Advisory Panel noted the emergence of a "blended" workforce, where contractors work side-by-side with federal officials. The panel observed that the lines between governmental and commercial functions have blurred.
National Defense January 2009 Reeder & Connolly	Conflict-of-Interest Plight Can Be Avoided Recently, one of the nation's largest government contractors faced a federal jury verdict that it violated the False Claims Act and breached two contracts with an independent federal agency based on failure to disclose conflicts of interest.
National Defense April 2013 Sandra I. Erwin	Pentagon, Contractors Clash Over Profits The pressure is on at the Pentagon to bring down the cost of military hardware. The dictum from acquisitions chief Frank Kendall is that "unaffordable" programs will be axed.
National Defense August 2013 Sandra I. Erwin	Forecast Calls for Stormy Business Climate Bad news keeps piling up for Pentagon contractors. In the past six months alone, the defense-contracting sector has been buffeted by draconian budget cuts and by proposed new rules.
National Defense March 2005 Roxana Tiron	Contractor Security The Defense Department's relationship with contractors is changing as it becomes more reliant on them.
National Defense June 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Defense Industry: What Does Change Really Mean? The defense industry is unsure how they will be affected by revamped procurement practices promised by the Pentagon.
National Defense June 2006 Stuart B. Nibley	Defense Production Act Speeds Up Wartime Purchases The DPA is laced with provisions and omissions that leave gaps in the traditional relationship between the government and its contractors. Patriotic contractors will embrace the opportunity to assist the federal government. However, in doing so, they also must remain contractually agile and ever vigilant in guarding their legal rights.
National Defense February 2008 Joseph J. Summerill	Congress to Enact New Accountability in Contracting Congressional interest in oversight of government contracting began early last year with separate bills during the first three months of the 110th Congress in both the House and Senate that provided for contractor oversight and limited the number of sole source contracts.
National Defense February 2011 Sandra I. Erwin	For High-Tech Firms, Allure of Defense Contracts Is Tarnished by Red Tape Even in today's struggling economy, the prospect of scoring a big defense contract is not enough for many companies to want to do business with the Defense Department.
National Defense January 2014 Sandra I. Erwin	DoD Clashes With Suppliers Over Data Rights The clash pits military buyers who want to break up suppliers' monopolies against companies whose livelihood depends on keeping tight control over their designs.
National Defense March 2011 Denis Chamberland	Contractors on the Battlefield: Outsourcing of Military Services The last decade has witnessed a sharp increase in the scale of outsourcing of military services to third parties, emphasizing the importance of integrating contractor support into military operations and generating efficiencies.
National Defense February 2013 Sandra I. Erwin	Less Money, But Still Business As Usual As the dust begins to settle to reveal a leaner defense budget, Pentagon contractors are strategizing for the new business environment. They also will be parsing the latest batch of Pentagon policies designed to turn around failing weapon acquisition programs.
Mother Jones May/Jun 2002 Ken Silverstein	Unjust Rewards The government continues to award federal business worth billions to companies that repeatedly break the law. A Mother Jones investigation reveals which major contractors are the worst offenders...
National Defense December 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Competitive Prototyping 'Brings Out the Best' in Contractors As a result of massive cost overruns and performance failures in major weapon systems, the Pentagon is now requiring competing contractors to build real-world functioning prototypes of their proposed hardware.
National Defense April 2011 D'Agostino & Goodwin	Lessons Learned From Latest Ethics Violation The Defense Department's inspector general's office in January reported instances of noncompliance with the Federal Acquisition Regulation, and recommended remedial action to improve the Army Logistics Civil Augmentation Program IV support contract.
National Defense February 2009 McGrath & Connolly	Final Rules on Mandatory Disclosure Effective Dec. 12, 2008, government contractors will face what rule authors characterize as a "sea change" in how government enforcement authorities expect to govern in the future.
National Defense August 2011 D'Agostino & Jack	New Rule Proposed For Organizational Conflicts of Interest On April 26, the government proposed major changes to rules concerning organizational conflicts of interest under the Federal Acquisition Regulation.
National Defense February 2007 Corrigan & Hickey	Contractors Should Get Ready for Scrutiny Federal contractors must be prepared for the change in political and business climate in Congress. Companies can minimize risks by assessing political dangers and self-assessing ethics and compliance programs.
National Defense July 2005 Dorn McGrath	When Are Defense Contracts In Effect `Non-Defense'? For several years, Congress has been concerned that the Defense Department's use of "assisting" procurement agencies and other contracting vehicles has concealed poor acquisition planning or attempts to circumvent limits placed on funding.
National Defense February 2012 Sean M. Connolly	Update Emerges For New Personal Conflicts of Interest Rule Effective Dec. 2, 2011, the Federal Acquisition Regulation requires U.S. government contractors and subcontractors to prevent personal conflicts of interest that arise during their employees' performance of certain acquisition functions.
BusinessWeek May 31, 2004 Spencer E. Ante	The Other U.S. Military The private military contractor biz is hot, vast, and largely unregulated. Is it out of control?
National Defense September 2010 Sandra I. Erwin	Plans to 'In-Source' Contractor Jobs Collide With Fiscal Reality As he unveiled a new wave of austerity measures at the Defense Department, Secretary Robert Gates made a striking acknowledgment: Replacing contractors with government employees does not really save money.
National Defense January 2009 Matthew Rusling	Small Firms Seeking Federal Contracts Face Uphill Climb Pentagon officials are fond of saying that small businesses are critical engines of innovation. According to recent government statistics, however, the Defense Department awards fewer contracts to small firms than it is obligated under federal guidelines.
National Defense May 2010 Dorn C. McGrath	Contractors Must Begin to Update Integrity Database The National Defense Authorization Act of 2009 now requires the government to develop and maintain an information system containing specific information on the integrity and performance of federal contractors and grantees.
Parameters Autumn 2008 Steven L. Schooner	Why Contractor Fatalities Matter Apprising the American public that the true human cost associated with military operations includes contractors and exceeds 6,000 is critical to making informed decisions for the future.
National Defense July 2012 Sandra I. Erwin	Defense Industry Targets $150B Weapons Maintenance Market Operations and support, or operations and sustainment, is military-speak for the unglamorous work of maintaining, refurbishing and overhauling Pentagon hardware, some of which is decades old.
National Defense September 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Military to Expand Outsourcing of Weapons Maintenance The Obama administration has unleashed plans to curtail outsourcing and bring more work in-house. But one area where the practice is not likely to slow down is weapons maintenance.
National Defense March 2007 Ebner & Menker	Message to Industry: `Do the Right Thing' Recent headlines have raised concerns about how federal procurements were handled on a variety of levels. Introduced last fall, a bill entitled the Clean Contracting Act may pass in the 110th Congress. These proposed changes are a harbinger of things that may come.
Parameters Autumn 2008 Mark Cancian	Contractors: The New Element of Military Force Structure The purpose of this article is to examine what battlefield contractors do, consider how we got to the situation we are in today, and provide force planners with some useful insight regarding the future.
National Defense January 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Industry Braces for Bigger Crackdown on Corruption Federal regulators recently introduced new anticorruption rules that lawyers inside the Beltway have characterized as unprecedented in their scope and power.
National Defense April 2005 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Consistency, Consensus Needed on Industry Profits Although there is a widespread perception that defense contracts yield healthy profits, in reality, the way government officials view profits can be drastically different from the way industry measures that profit.
National Defense May 2009 Moorhouse & Connolly	Further Government Contracting Reform on the Obama Agenda The administration has committed to take specific steps to reduce wasteful spending, overcharges, and fraud.
National Defense April 2011 Sandra I. Erwin	Contractors Advised to Focus Less On Stock Prices, More on Customers Pentagon contractors will have to think differently about their business if they want to maintain or improve the financial performance they have enjoyed over the past decade, insiders say.
National Defense May 2008 Moorhouse & Connolly	Contractors' Conflicts of Interest Under Scrutiny Contractors may soon be required to police their employees' personal conflicts of interest.
National Defense January 2008 Alan L. Gropman	Government Needs to Reexamine Rules for Battlefield Contractors The contractor headcount in Iraq nearly matches U.S. troop strength, which raises questions of whether the private sector's role in combat operations has outpaced regulatory, doctrinal and management practices.
Parameters Autumn 2007 Marc Lindemann	Civilian Contractors under Military Law The insertion of five words into Congress's fiscal year 2007 defense authorization act may now subject every civilian contractor operating in a combat zone to the discipline of the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ).
National Defense October 2005 Stafford & Hickey	Defense Industry Teams Must Consider Conflict-of-Interest Concerns Contractor teaming arrangements, long a defense industry fixture, have become even more popular in recent years. Companies need to be aware, however, of the Organizational Conflicts of Interest (OCI) policies that govern these arrangements.
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National Defense June 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Expand Work Force Based on Quality, Not Quantity, Warns Former Pentagon official The Defense Department should be careful in how it goes about expanding its acquisition work force
National Defense April 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	Pentagon Begins Broad Review Of Acquisition Workforce Skills The Pentagon has launched an extensive evaluation of military acquisition and contracting personnel in order to gauge their skills and competence.
National Defense November 2004 Roxana Tiron	Pentagon Still Undecided on Policies to Protect Contractors As contractors increasingly fall in the cross hairs of insurgents in Iraq, the Defense Department is struggling to figure out how to account for them, provide for their security and, if necessary, rescue them.