Pentagon leaders should order a military-wide review of contingency contracting practices to ensure current contracts supporting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan are receiving adequate oversight, according to a Government Accountability Office report released yesterday. The report comes in response to a 2006 request from House lawmakers who tasked GAO officials to investigate cost increases in Defense Department contingency contracts. Lawmakers also told the auditors to review DOD oversight of select contracts and report on the military's rationale for using...
