A single company gets 69% of government contracts in Afghanistan

[eridani]

http://readersupportednews.org/news-section2/318-66/23402-more-than-23rds-of-afghanistan-reconstruction-money-has-gone-to-one-company

f not for the federal government, contractor DynCorp International wouldn’t be in business. Virtually all of its revenue (96%) comes from government contracts. That includes the vast majority of the taxpayer dollars that the State Department has awarded to companies to help rebuild Afghanistan.

The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) says that of the $4 billion allotted by the State Department from 2002 to 2013, 69.3% went to DynCorp. In terms of actual dollars, DynCorp took in $2.8 billion.

Giving so much to one company might not have been a good idea, given DynCorp’s record.

The Project on Government Oversight (POGO) notes the contractor’s “colorful history” includes “instances of labor smuggling, weak performance and overpayments on a base support services contract, botched construction work on an Afghan Army garrison, and lawsuits filed by disgruntled subcontractors.”

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The second largest recipient of contracts for work in Afghanistan has been PAE Government Services, which received $598 million (or 15% of all State Department reconstruction funds). PAE has also had its troubles, according to POGO.

The former subsidiary of Lockheed Martin, one of the biggest defense contractors in the U.S., saw a former program manager, Keith Johnson, and his wife, Angela Johnson, go to prison for conspiring to defraud the military over purchases of vehicle parts.

[blkmusclmachine]

1. It pays to be a part of "THE FAMILY."

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

2. You'd think, with all that spending, they could win a war occasionally.

Maybe they should give up the wars and do something useful for a change.

[Unknown Beatle]

3. They don't want to win wars.

Perpetual war is a huge money-maker for the Pentagon and their cronies that make WMD.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

4. Yeah, the bomb creators and the so-called job creators are the only people whose welfare matters to

far too many of those in power.

[n2doc]

5. Too bad all this graft and corruption isn't being spent on stuff here

Lots of America needs rebuilding. If we must do things this way, it is a shame the projects aren't here.

Instead we turn our interstates into toll roads.