mr. fontaine. >> thank you very much for granting me the opportunity to testify today. i'm honored to take part in this hearing. my testimony today is based on a report called "contracting and conflicts: the path to reform." in this report, i discuss possible solutions to many of the problems that have plagued the contracting process. the entire report is available for download on our website. our report proceeds from the realization that when our nation goes to war, contractors go it. the invasion of afghanistan together with the march 2003 invasion of iraq saw an increase in the size and scope of contracted support on the battlefield that is unprecedented. but the system in which this contracting takes place has not caught up with the new reality. as america's dependence on contractors is likely to continue, the need for reform is pressing. my written testimony details many recommendations we've made to move down the path to reform. i'd like to highlight a few that are particularly important. fir

mr. fontaine? >> just one final point and it gets to training. if contractors are going to be part of the total force, which the 2010 qdr says they are, tn those military individls are civilians who go over to theaters who don't do contract management will need to know something about contractors, what they do, how to find out what they do, what the regulations are and whether they can order them to do something or not. currently, if you go out toone of the training places before the predeployment training, they are actually run by contractors, but there is almost no plain contractors. when they get over to afghanistan andiraq they'll find more of them than they'll find of the military. same thing is true in war game, the role of contractors incorporated. in the 2008 national theirization act there was a requirement the dod issue a joint directive to bring together war gaming and predeployment training, the role of contractors integrate that. they have not issued that documenyet even though it was required in 2008. moving down that path would be