Pentagon Re-evaluating Background Checks for Iraqi Workers
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In reaction to the suspected suicide bombing at a base in Iraq, the Pentagon is investigating how US forces check the backgrounds of Iraqis who work at US installations.
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Iraq says it will review the status of all security firms in the country after a deadly gunfight involving a US firm.
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The Army will examine as many as 18,000 contracts awarded over the past four years to support U.S. forces in Iraq to determine how many are tainted by waste, fraud and abuse
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The Pentagon said Wednesday it has created a new Web site to help veterans who face difficulty returning to their old jobs or finding new ones after deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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An Iraqi report about missing munitions intensifies the debate over the Bush Administration's handling of the war
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Weapons that were originally given to Iraqi security forces by the American military have been recovered over the past year by authorities in Turkey after being used in violent crimes in that country, Pentagon officials said yesterday.
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The Pentagon has added new procedures to ensure that senior officials seeking employment in industry abide by the rules governing post-government work.
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Iraq will review the status of all security companies after this week's "flagrant assault" by contractors from the U.S. firm Blackwater in which 11 people were shot dead, the government said on Tuesday.
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The Pentagon on Monday said its internal watchdog would investigate eight more contracts handled by Darleen Druyun, a former Air Force official convicted last year of violating conflict-of-interest rules.
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Recruiters working for U.S. contractors are hiring former Colombian soldiers &#151; and luring away active-duty ones &#151; for security jobs in Iraq, according to a former army officer who met with the recruiters.
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Serial numbers on pistols and other weapons in Turkey match those originally given to Iraqi security forces by the American military.
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The Pentagon appoints a retired general to review its Iraq operations, amid growing concern about security.
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The Pentagon has disputed parts of a progress report on Iraq drafted by the Government Accountability Office, and asked that some of the assessment's failing grades on key political and security benchmarks be changed before the final report is made public next week, a Defense spokesman said...
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The Defense Department plans to continue hiring private contractors to provide security at reconstruction projects in Iraq and to train U.S. and Iraqi military officers in counterinsurgency, despite problems with past contracts for such jobs that traditionally have been done by military personnel.
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A reassessment by the Central Intelligence Agency has cast doubt on a central piece of evidence used by the Bush administration before the invasion of Iraq to draw links
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A pair of U.S. senators investigating reports of waste, fraud and mismanagement in defense contracts in Iraq reported from Baghdad Saturday that they see some improvement but the military has a long way to go.
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The Pentagon, concerned over a bold  and growing insurgency in Iraq, is sending a retired Army  general to Iraq to review U.S. military operations and the  training of Iraqi forces, defense officials said on Friday.