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7 Use of Contractors and the Army Reserve
7 Use of Contractors and the Army Reserve
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forces, primarily base support. System support contracts are put in place to "provide support to newly fielded weapons systems, including aircraft, land combat vehicles, and automated command and control systems" and are normally administered by Service system materiel acquisition program offices (DoD, 2011)
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TABLE 7-1 Contractor Support Breakout in Afghanistan, 2014 Number of Number of Support Function Contractors Support Function Contractors Base support 6,834 Translator/interpreter 4,889 Communications support 2,451 Transportation 5,064 Construction 7,877 Medical/dental/social services 283 Logistics/maintenance 20,568 Management/administrative 5,316 Security 5,591 Other 791 Training 1,788 NOTE: "Other" includes Defense Logistics Agency, Army Materiel Command, Air Force External and Systems Support contracts, Special Operations Command, and the U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command.
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. STUDIES OF OPERATIONAL CONTRACT SUPPORT The contracting process and the effectiveness of contracting have been the subject of several major studies and commission reports over the last decade, including the following: • Congressional Budget Office, Logistics Support for Deployed Military Forces, October 2005; • Commission on Army Acquisition and Program Management in Expeditionary Operations, Urgent Reform Required: Army Expeditionary Contracting, October 2007; • Defense Science Board, Improvements to Services Contracting, March 2011; • Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan, Transforming Wartime Contracting: Controlling Costs, Reducing Risks, August 2011; • Government Accountability Office, Defense Contracting: DOD Initiative to Address Audit Backlog Shows Promise, but Additional Management Attention Needed to Close Aging Contracts, December 2012; and • Government Accountability Office, Contractor Performance: DOD Actions to Improve the Reporting of Past Performance Information, June 2013.
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3) Based on its findings, the task force identified the need for DoD to do the following: • Establish the role of contracted support of deployed military operations within the total force mix; • Ensure leadership accountability across the Department and in the combatant commands for operational contract support in their area of responsibility; • Institute a readiness measurement capability and institute accountable measures of success for operational contract support as a component of combat readiness; • Develop and implement a risk management plan for operational contract support; and • Ensure timely audits of contingency contracts that are useful for contract management.
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Planners in both the Services and the combatant commands should be schooled in the capabilities of contractor organizations to assist in contingency planning. The contracting organizations should provide for the continuous participation of contractors in the military planning process.
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For this reason, the Army Reserve has initiated programs to make available to combatant commands and Army theater components planning teams whose members not only will be able to assist in developing computer contingency plans but also will provide to the planners information about the capabilities of the specialized reserve units. It is not unusual to find that within a higher-level headquarters there is limited knowledge about the types of units and their capabilities involved in complex logistical operations such as those that occur at ports and critical transit locations.
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2014. Task Force on Contractor Logistics in Support of Contingency Operations.
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