In response to the Senate report, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates issued a letter saying that the Pentagon recognized the problems and has created new task forces to help overhaul contracting procedures in Afghanistan.
Unfettered by normal checks, balances and the pressures of getting re-elected, emergency managers here have overhauled labor contracts, sold off city assets and privatized nearly every service Pontiac once provided to citizens.
The England and Wales Cricket Board has overhauled its central contract system, bringing renewed emphasis on leading limited-overs players, the details of which were revealed in the Guardian earlier this week.
A groundbreaking study issued earlier this year led the state to overhaul its contracts with the private companies that run the houses.
After the hearings, lawmakers introduced a package of more than a dozen bills that would reshape the halfway house system, increasing regulation and overhauling the contracts with the private companies.
In a surprise move, the president of the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz in Germany this week announced plans to overhaul controversial contracts governing the use of a €150 million donation from a philanthropic foundation.
The governor has argued that there isn't enough money to cover the extra costs, saying universities should cut administrative costs to free up dollars for operations and overhaul their contracting process to provide funds for the scholarships.
Sanjay Kumar, Mr. Wang's successor as chairman, has said repeatedly that the company has overhauled the way its contracts are structured and how the company accounts for the income the contracts produce.
Before the contract was awarded, USAID overhauled the initiative, stripping out those concrete targets.
In Washington, where I took over from a court-appointed receiver, the work ranged from reducing caseloads to overhauling information technology, contracting, licensing and personnel systems.
The Obama administration began scaling back the program late last month and breaking it into pieces, as part of a broader effort to overhaul expensive weapons contracts and focus more on fighting insurgencies.
