Pentagon officials are taking new steps to gain insight into the size and composition of the foreign contractor workforce employed by the U.S. military in Iraq, according to sources and documents. Shay Assad, the director of defense procurement policy in the office of the Pentagon's chief acquisition official, unveiled guidance on Oct. 17 mandating that data about local workers and other non-U.S. citizens, dubbed third-country-nationals (TCNs), in Iraq be collected in a central Defense Department database. Local workers and third-country...
