Defense was ordered to establish departmentwide standards under Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 but has been hindered by bureaucratic wrangling and a lack of leadership, GAO said in a report released July 31.
As you have seen, I like to put the best quotes that summarizes the story, front and center. And the two key points are […]
Cool gig, and I hope some lucky FJ reader gets it. By the way, please do not send me a resume/CV for this, because I am not the point of contact or recruiter. I find this stuff, and post it for the job seekers out there as a nice little benefit of the blog […]
I found this at Jarret Brachman’s blog, which he got from Al Jazeera English. If you follow the link below, he has some more stuff on these rules. It looks like the Taliban command is trying to get organized, or at least give the impression of getting organized. -Matt
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“From the Supreme Leader of the Islamic […]
Good deal, and glad to hear this was approved. I know there are more cases of heroism in this war, and the public needs to know about that. We need to recognize these individuals that gave the enemy hell, and in most cases, gave everything they got by paying the ultimate sacrifice. Which makes […]
Scary stuff and this kind of thing is not cool for the war effort. Rest in peace to the Iraqi security guards that were gunned down in this.
Also, the use of suppressed weapons is interesting as well. Obviously these guys were well equipped and somewhat trained to pull off something like this. […]
Very cool. Now lets take these lessons learned on over to Afghanistan? Better yet, let’s have a COR’s surge, seeing how we just love surges, and get some folks over there to monitor that effort so Afghanistan becomes a success story with contracting. It can happen, but it takes real effort, and not a […]
Glad to see DynCorp taking these steps and I hope they make good with their promise of ’strengthening it’s ethics programs’. But what DynCorp really needs to focus on, is insuring they hire the right folks into positions of management. The quality of leadership out there is what will make or break your company […]
Walter and the rest of the media is a little late to this party, but we can deal with that. Although it would be nice for the Washington Post to add a little balance to their articles about such things. Like mentioning a crucial quote that Defense Secretary Gates gave in regards to security contractors. […]
Ok, this is a good one, I promise. What I have done is to present the point of views of four bloggers/journalists, break down the essence of their posts, and try to find some middle ground with their points of view. Then I will end it with my views about what the UN could do to […]
This was a bad week, with many air crashes within the contracting world. Both in Afghanistan and in Iraq we had helicopter crashes, and it really didn’t get much of a mention in the media. So here is a dedication to one of the fallen, a ‘Little Bird’ pilot named Sonny Hinchman that worked […]
