Sentence examples for contractor support from inspiring English sources

In April, the Project on Government Oversight, a nonprofit watchdog group, warned Mr. Panetta's predecessor, Robert M. Gates, in a letter that a truck bomb "could easily be detonated in close proximity to the proposed new building, killing hundreds to thousands of D.O.D. and contractor support employees".

DOD still faces challenges that stem from the department's failure to fully integrate operational contract support within DOD, including planning for the use of contractors, training military personnel on the use of contractor support, accurately tracking contractor use, and establishing measures to ensure that contractors are accountable.

"As a defense contractor supporting many military and security agencies most of our employees are citizens and actually many of them hold security clearances".

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While contractors support a number of the changes, they say the pressure to cut costs is already prompting layoffs and buyouts at military companies, even as the Obama administration is battling to save jobs in other areas of the economy.

The Military Extraterritorial Jurisdiction Act extends civilian law to contractors supporting military operations overseas, and the Uniform Code of Military Justice was broadened in 2006 to cover contractors.

Susan Reichle, assistant to the administrator at USAid, notes that the use of contractors can present challenges, but says it would be unrealistic to rely solely on internal expertise, arguing that the effective deployment of contractors supports both the efficiency and sustainability of programmes.

In recent times, the number of contractors supporting operations in Iraq and Afghanistan has reached historic proportions.

In other words, contractors supporting the war effort today are losing more lives than the U.S. military waging these wars.

Only when DOD has established its future vision for the use and role of contractors supporting deployed forces and fully institutionalizes the concepts of operational contract support can it effectively address its long-term capability to oversee and manage those contractors.

We believe that our employee assistance program represents the gold standard of employee support for other companies to emulate, and recommend that the government mandate and fund this program for all contractors supporting U.S. national security and foreign policy objectives in hostile environments.