Eye on Contracting

Pentagon spokesman Col. David Lapan declined to comment this morning on the substance of the recommendations of the Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan, which the panel previewed today in a Washington Post Op-Ed. The panel's report is due out this week, Lapan said, noting he had not yet seen it and he was unsure whether the panel provided a prepublication copy to the Pentagon. He said the department has been aware of contracting "deficiencies" and has been working to fix them.