07/13/2010 (People Port) The QDR may need and addendum because that Report left out military services contracting. Our Commission on Wartime Contracting suggests we spend more on contractors than we spend on weapon systems. The Defense Department transfer in Iraq to State has the State Department needing contractors for everything from IEDs to emergency rescue resources. Our military culture does not recognize, plan, train for contracting.
Contractors are a large wartime cost component. Contractors, outside experts, planning, incorporation into our Defense Department began at the start of our Nation. In 2006, we began to manage them as a top -working- military component. They are still a subset of procurement. Enter our State Department trying to take over our military functions in Iraq.
Our over-achievers at State looked into this and came up with all types of needed private contractors providing military type services. Our Commission on Wartime Contracting is very concerned about this high cost for an unknown quality.
The blame appears to be our military culture. Procurement is well understood by our fighting force integrated into planning, life. Military like contracting, managing those contracts, seems to be an afterthought. Our Commission asked, if Military like services contracting was important, it would be found in, Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR). They did not find it.
Preparing For A QDR, a speech given by Kathleen Hicks, PhD.D. She is in charge of Defense Department. Strategy, Plans, and Forces.
"Contractor employees have exceeded the numbers of military personnel in Iraq and Afghanistan,” Co-Chair Michael Thibault said in a press release, “and the military relies on them for base security, dining halls, laundry, transport, and other vital services. Yet little has been done to include contractors in DoD’s strategic, operational, and manpower planning."
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