deputy comptroller at the department of defense, we have one member of congress, a high ranking gao official. we have another member who was at the department of defense, national security, and number three at the state department. we take our jobs very seriously. we have never seen any partisanship. i want to say that your company, in the end, find a way to cooperate with us, but sometimes we feel like we take you clicking -- kicking and driving to the altar -- dragging to the altar. we rarely have to deal with attorneys in other offices, but we often have to deal with attorneys in your operation. you have been helpful and had people come down, and we appreciate that, but on a scale of 1- 10, you are somewhere in the middle in terms of other contractors. i fully, and the commission fully respects your 29 and a half years of service in the military. i have traveled to iraq more times than i can count because i get a fix from being in the presence of the people from -- people like you. we all point out that contractors are an essential part of this operation. we could not do without them. a l

we have a high ranking gao official who was project manager and part of the senior executive order. we have another member who is a dod national security and a number three state department. and we have a contract law professor. we take our joffrey sincerely. we have not ever seen any partisanship. and i want to say that your company in the end finds a way to cooperate with us. but sometimes we feel like we take you kicking and dragging to the altar. that's just our opinion. we rarely have to deal with an attorney in another office, but we have to more than often than do not deal with an attorney in your operations. as if that's the only way we can communicate with you. you have been very helpful and cooperative in having our people come down and we appreciate that. but on a scale of one to 10, you are somewhere in the middle of the cooperation compared to some of the other contract is. my point in asking you to start in the third page of your document is we wanted to get inside the meat of your point. i fully am the commission fully respects your 29.5 years of service to the milita

gao issued last week that talks about the amount, number of contractors that are supporting contract administration in iraq and afghanistan. again, i job that probably is better done by government officials. the army has used contracting office representatives, contractors to be contracting officer representatives in the past. you know what the situation is with that now? are you still using contractors as coors? >> man, a lot of questions in your statement. in iraq today, in afghanistan, we have a contract with caci. and that contract allows for up to 40 caci employees to serve alongside joint contracting command-iraq know, as well as to serve with units and brigades primarily within their supply shops. and also at division headquarters. in afghanistan, it allows for up to 35 to do essentially the same thing. they are not doing inherently government functions. they are doing work that is -- involves developing a statement of work, that is worked through the war fighting units through their requirements and resourcing process. and want to get stewed jcc-i/a, there are some caci in place that are serving alongside our contracting officers both in iraq and afghanistan that are supporting t