EcoRebates.com and FreeCleanSolar.com both offer audit tools, and serve contractors or retailers who want to sell more "green" products and services.
Barry Halley, a former project manager for Worldwide Network Services, a Washington, D.C.-based firm that was working on subcontract for DynCorp, testified that his site manager in Iraq, who he said was employed by a "major defense contractor," moonlighted as the leader of a prostitution ring serving American contractors in Iraq.
The company has more than 490 locations nationwide and is dedicated exclusively to serving professional contractors.
Those lost jobs include positions at federal contractors, as well as at businesses that serve those contractors and, even less directly, at the businesses that depend on spending by government and contractor employees.
Ms. Meyers and Dr. Candrilli served as contractors for Eli Lilly and are employees of RTI Health Solutions.
The report says the reliance on contractors has grown steadily, with just a small percentage of contractors serving the Pentagon in World War I, but then growing to nearly a third of the total force in the Korean War and about half in the Balkans and Iraq.
Company officials, however, have indicated they expected to continue serving as primary contractors.
The Army has only 408 psychiatrists — military, civilian and contractors — serving about 553,000 active-duty troops around the world.
Governments — including those in Spain, Italy, Greece and some Canadian provinces — have bought the planes, but private contractors serving the Forest Service have not.
Combined with a provision in last year's defense appropriations bill that placed contractors "serving with or accompanying an armed force in the field" under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, the new bill could go a long way toward imposing legal accountability on American mercenaries.
