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Changing the Culture of Pentagon Contracting | The New America Foundation (flag)
www.newamerica.net — Transition away from the use of private security contractors in the battle space and build up the capabilities of the State Department's Bureau of Diplomatic Security and the military police to take on security responsibilities. As this transition takes place, the Military Extraterritorial ...

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Changing the Culture of Military Contracting
democracyarsenal.org — ... In my day job at the New America Foundation I look at the influence of non-state actors on American foreign policy and today we are unveiling our first research report examining the issue, Changing the Culture of Pentagon Contracting, which examines the relationship between U.S. government agencies and private security, military, and contingency contractors and offers recommendations for managing this relationship in the future.  ...

Changing the Culture of Pentagon Contracting
The Washington Note — ... The New America Foundation's Privatization of Foreign Policy Initiative has brought together experts from across the political and policy spectrum for a discussion about the specific challenges presented by private security and contingency contracting. Their latest report, Changing the Culture of Pentagon Contracting examines the relationship between U.S. government agencies and private security, military, and contingency contractors and offers recommendations for managing this relationship in the future. The recommendations presented here are aimed at informing policymakers, ...

Has the Privatization of National Security Gone Too Far? - Event at New America Foundation
democracyarsenal.org — ... For those of you interested in the issue of private contractor issue, I will be hosting an event tomorrow at New America Foundation to unveil our new report, Changing the Culture of Military Contracting. Hope to see some of you there! ...

Is Contracting All Bad?
democracyarsenal.org — ... Now I am not a contractor booster, as I recently wrote a report that called on the US government to transition away from the use of private security contractors; but it's crucial that we consider the use of contractors in a fact-based manner and not rely on anecdotal examples of supposed contractor excess. ...

Hillary Gets it Right on Contractors
democracyarsenal.org — ... While I have advocated for a transition away from PSCs performing private security work on behalf of the US government we are not yet at that point - although I certainly hope that under Clinton's leadership, the State Department begins to move in that direction. ...

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