Contractor Business Systems in Trouble, Part 2

Contractor business systems are a mess. That opinion was conveyed by several participants in a hearing of the Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan Tuesday. The Commission’s web site says Tuesday’s hearing was intended to “explore the challenges that government oversight officials face when contractors’ systems for billing, purchasing, labor, compensation, estimates, and other activities are inadequate for providing complete, accurate, and timely information.”

The hearing consisted of two panels. I played highlights of the first panel, from the morning, on yesterday’s show. Witnesses represented the Army Contracting Command; the Defense Contract Audit Agency; and the Defense Contract Management Agency. The video from the morning session is available by scrolling down to yesterday’s entries.

The afternoon panel, highlighted on today’s show, included David Methot, Chief Compliance Officer at the Flour Construction Government Group; William Ballhaus, President and CEO of Dyncorp; and Bill Walters, Senior Vice President of Compliance at KBR.

Click to watch the afternoon panel

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