the commission has for the members, clark ervin, robert henke and the zakheim. the precipitating event for german tierney him fighting us is the official release of the interim report to congress in title, at what cost gum contingency qatar entity in iraq and afghanistan. reporter none fisa longstanding issues for awarding managing in auditing the vital contracts of support logistic security and reconstruction missions. these include shortages and the federal acquisition workforce, a poorly defined in executed contracts, inadequate planning, we provisions for accountability, unnecessary work and costly rework. problems that are undermining attainment of national objectives in wasting billions of taxpayer dollars. we will describe some of our preliminary observations. as congress intended the interim report is preliminary and handed it. at what cost provides an interim statement on key focus areas and results which are listed in the report. since 2001 congress has appropriated, as was stated here, over $830 billion to fund the u.s. operations in iraq and afghanis