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Contractors And The Ultimate Sacrifice, Steven L. Schooner
Contractors And The Ultimate Sacrifice, Steven L. Schooner
GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works
This brief article quantifies how, in Iraq and Afghanistan, contractor personnel increasingly have made the ultimate sacrifice alongside, or in lieu of, service members. The enormity of the contractor sacrifice gives pause - more than 2,000 contractors have been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. But what is more striking is that contractors are bearing an increasing proportion of the annual death toll. In the first half of 2010, more contractors died in Iraq and Afghanistan supporting the war effort than members of the U.S. military waging these wars.
Hiring Law Professors: Breaking The Back Of An American Plutocratic Oligarchy, Daniel I. Gordon
Hiring Law Professors: Breaking The Back Of An American Plutocratic Oligarchy, Daniel I. Gordon
GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works
Law students and the consumers of legal services like to think that professors are hired by law schools on the basis of pure intellectual ability and achievement. No doubt, individual intellectual ability and achievement play significant roles in law school faculty hiring. However, another important dynamic is overlooked, wealth.
Emerging Policy And Practice Issues (2009), Steven L. Schooner, David J. Berteau
Emerging Policy And Practice Issues (2009), Steven L. Schooner, David J. Berteau
GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works
This paper, presented at the West Government Contracts Year in Review Conference (covering 2009), attempts to identify the key trends and issues for 2010 in U.S. federal procurement. In large part, the paper focuses upon the challenges inherited by the Obama administration and its efforts during its first year in office. Among other things, the paper suggests that the administration charted a course of what it perceived as bold action – most dramatically, touting "savings" and accountability, while permitting special interests to distract focus from value for money and customer satisfaction. Accordingly, at least to date, the Obama administration's procurement …
Federal Contracting And Acquisition: Progress, Challenges, And The Road Ahead, Steven L. Schooner
Federal Contracting And Acquisition: Progress, Challenges, And The Road Ahead, Steven L. Schooner
GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works
This brief paper discusses the Obama administration's public procurement agenda, major trends that influence the acquisition regime (that now encompasses $500B annually), and significant challenges the administration faces in improving the value it receives for the money it spends. It concludes with a group of research questions suggested by participants at the November IBM forum on Framing a Public Management Research Agenda.
Emerging Policy And Practice Issues (2010), Steven L. Schooner, David J. Berteau
Emerging Policy And Practice Issues (2010), Steven L. Schooner, David J. Berteau
GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works
This paper, presented at the West Government Contracts Year in Review Conference (covering 2010), attempts to identify the key trends and issues for 2011 in U.S. federal procurement. The paper, among other things, focuses on the intense activity that emanated from the Defense Department, primarily through USD(AT&L) Ashton Carter’s Efficiency and Productivity Initiative; summarizes empirical evidence that the federal procurement spending growth cycle finally has run its course; offers a window into the concentration of spending amongst the largest contracting agencies and government contractors; points out that, despite all of the attention focused upon government contracting, over the last decade …
A Versatile Prism: Assessing Procurement Law Through The Principal-Agent Model, Christopher R. Yukins
A Versatile Prism: Assessing Procurement Law Through The Principal-Agent Model, Christopher R. Yukins
GW Law Faculty Publications & Other Works
Over the past several decades, the federal procurement system in the United States has grown remarkably, and now totals over $500 billion annually.
Over that same period, the rules governing federal procurement have been buffeted by broad efforts at reform. At no point, however, have we ever had an overarching theory - a model or prism - through which to assess the procurement system or its reform. Agency theory provides one such theoretical model. Long established in economics and the other social sciences, the principal-agent model (agency theory) provides a model to explain successes (and failures) in organizational structures, and …