TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hutton, John P.
ED  - United States Government Accountability Office (USGAO).
TI  - Iraq and Afghanistan : agencies face challenges in tracking contracts, grants, cooperative agreements, and associated personnel : testimony before the Subcommittee on oversight and investigations, Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives / John P. Hutton
U1  - Pamphlet  HD 3861 .U6 .H88 /2010/ + /PDF/(160KB)  
CY  - [Washington, D.C.] : United States Government Accountability Office, 2010.
KW  - Defense contracts – United States.
KW  - Contracting out – United States – Management.
KW  - Government contractors – United States.
KW  - Interagency coordination – United States.
KW  - United States. Dept. of Defense – Personnel management.
KW  - Agency for International Development – Personnel management
N1  - Cover title; “March 23, 2010”; “GAO Accountability Integrity Reliability, GAO-10-509T”—running caption; Includes bibliographical references; Abstract: The Departments of Defense (DOD) and State (State) and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) have relied extensively on contractors, grantees, and cooperative agreement recipients to support troops and civilian personnel and carry out reconstruction efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan. This reliance increases the importance of agencies having reliable data to inform decision-making and oversee the work performed. To help increase oversight of activities supporting DOD, State, and USAID's efforts in Iraq and Afghanistan, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008, as amended, required the agencies to identify common databases of information on their contracts, grants, cooperative agreements, and associated personnel. In their July 2008 memorandum of understanding (MOU), the three agencies designated the Synchronized Predeployment and Operational Tracker (SPOT) as their system for tracking the required information. GAO's testimony addresses (1) how a lack of information hinders agencies' management and oversight of contracts, grants, cooperative agreements, and associated personnel, (2) the status of the agencies' continued efforts to implement SPOT, and (3) GAO's prior recommendation to improve SPOT's implementation
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.2458/azu_acku_pamphlet_hd3861_u6_h88_2010
ER  -