. >> it was signed by the two cochairs, myself and mr. shays and i accept that you haven't seen it but like i said, if you take a singular message back from this, we are trying to engage in constructive dialogue and we are going to ask, for is from you, mr. methot and no disrespect and you both are knowledgeable about the company but we'll be asking the same thing. and there is a reason. it impacts us and we'd like to get a feel for it. it is really important to us. so, if you could take that back, i'll be glad all morning -- we have a hearing tomorrow, tomorrow afternoon to e-mail that to you. >> okay. >> all right. thanks, that's it. >> mr. thibeault -- >> oh, another five minute, thanks for giving me your five minutes, buddy. >> okay, mr. methot, i am -- mostly would like to give you questions for the record after wards. i think you are about -- you are about to face the transition in afghanistan, and we studied this one in kuwait and it was hell and everyone agreed, one of the few agreement on all corporate sides and the government side, th

toys were chaired by mr. shays. -- twice were chaired by mr. shays. we conducted a formal -- we know the commissioner appointed as had the opportunity with -- to work effectively with them. each individual brings a perspective to these tasks. we have had the opportunity to work with many agencies involved in developing requirements. we appreciate the challenges they have faced from the commitments they have shown to fulfill this mission. we have worked with dozens of companies from across our membership that put their companies and employees on the line every day to further the objectives. to many members of the military, u.s. citizens and people had given their lives in that support. i can say that the issues in an iraq and afghanistan are among the most complex and interdependent among numerous government-directed missions. all of this possible and easier to be selective in the issues chosen for review. the value of any analysis in iraq must take into account several sets of realities. iraq contract and is not one activity, it is three different sub

commission to where president, i have not seen it. >> it was signed by the two cochairs, myself and mr. shaysaccept that you have not seen it but if you take a singular message back, we are trying to engage in a dialogue and we are going to ask for is mr. methot and we appreciate you being here. no disrespect -- both are knowledgeable about the company but we are going to be asking the same thing. there is the reason. because the them taxes. this is really important to us, so if you could take that back, i will be glad, tomorrow morning or tomorrow afternoon to e-mail that to you. >> okay. >> alright come thanks. >> i get another five minutes? thank you for giving me your five minutes. >> mr. methot, i would mostly like to deal with questions for the record afterwards. i think you are about to face the transition in afghanistan. we study the one in kuwait. it was hell and everyone agreed one of the few agreements on all corporate sites and the government side, they all agreed afghanistan would be held to have to transition so i am curious about your plans and also the process of becoming a go

mr. richard. >> thank you. chairman tebow and shays and distinguished commissioners of the commission on wartime contracting, thank you for this opportunity to discuss the important of contractor business systems in army contracting. effective business systems are central to the conduct of sound business operations. contractors must have systems in place such as accounting, payroll and billing at the time of contract award that are in compliance with government cost accounting standards, federal acquisition regulations and defense federal acquisition regulations. the systems must reasonably forecast labor and material requirements, ensure the costs of labor, subcontracts and purchase of fabricated material charged or allocated to a contract or based on valid requirements, and maintain a consistent, equitable and unbiased logic for costing of material transactions and labor. contractors must maintain the systems throughout the life of the contract. the army considers the relative condition of a contractor's management systems including

mr. doodle. to chairman shays, members of the commission, on behalf of the 9700 employees of the global linguistolutions i want to thank you for this opportunity to contribute to the commission's goals and to participate. it is a very important process. tyco international formed global linguist solutions as a joint venture in december 2006 for the sole purpose of executing a u.s. army inscom contract to provide interpreters and translators in support of our operation iraqi freedom. the company has no other business interests to compete for the attention of our senior management. gls build a leadership team whose effort would be devoted to the success of the single critically important contract. from december 2006, when the contract was first awarded to gls until march 2008, went uninterrupted performance commenced, gls continue to provide leadership and management staff, plan for transition, and recruit american arabic speakers throughout the united states which would our troops serving in harm's way would have adequate linguists with the right skills at the right place and at the right time. wh

mr. thibault? >> thank you, commissioner shays.thank you for each of you taking the time to come up and prepare for this. i have several areas of interest. this is a really important area. i don't see any difference of a view that it's a really important area and i'm going to talk about, though, i see differences of treatment of the outcomes. but before i go into that, director stephenson, you indicated to us last may, four months ago, you acknowledged the uptick or the significant increase in afghanistan for workload. and a big part of this commission's effort is to try to take lessons learned from iraq and the importance and i know the dcaa was one of, if not the first, noncombat agency to go into iraq in 2003, summer of 2003, and the event started in early spring of 2003. and in may, we kind of highlighted that when we went out, we didn't see as much of dcaa as we might have expected given the uptick. can you talk a little bit about actions you might have taken and then the other thing we talked about is dcaa going to get out in

mr. thibault? >> thank you, commissioner shays.hank you for each of you taking the time to come up and prepare for this. i have several areas of interest. this is a really important area. i don't see any difference of a view that it's a really important area and i'm going to talk about, though, i see differences of treatment of the outcomes. but before i go into that, director stephenson, you indicated to us last may, four months ago, you acknowledged the uptick or the significant increase in afghanistan for workload. and a big part of this commission's effort is to try to take lessons learned from iraq and the importance and i know the dcaa was one of, if not the first, noncombat agency to go into iraq in 2003, summer of 2003, and the event started in early spring of 2003. and in may, we kind of highlighted that when we went out, we didn't see as much of dcaa as we might have expected given the uptick. can you talk a little bit about actions you might have taken and then the other thing we talked about is dcaa going to get out int

mr. cochairman would you like to make a closing comment. >> i would like to be sure that each has an opportunity if they have a final comment they want to make, commissioner shays, my cochair says if i miss that i co-opt the blame, we'll start with you, mr. methot. >> let me say that as new kid on the block we are happy to be here and proud to serve, much like the military would say. we believe we're an integral part of the military operation support to the soldier in the field and very, sometimes austere conditions, it's not always easy to find people to go over that want to work in that -- in that environment but fluor is 100% committed to ensuring the corporate begin systems are adequate and meet the requirements and expectations of our customers, and whether dcaa or dcma or the army contracting command. we have a lot of customers when we say the government is our customer. and, we're here to please every one of those. and, while we are the new kid on the block i want to say, we are very happy to be here and we take everything you said seriously, and we will do you proud. >> well, we're not a new kid on the block, we have been in this business since right af

second thing is commissioner shays, i wanted to second what you said about mr. ricci. realize he has taken a lot this morning. but in our working relationship, he is one of actually the people who has resolved a number of issues that we have had with contracting officers. although, this one is one where we disagree on. he actually has been the type we have been able to make a phone call and helps resolve them and i did want to second what you have to say about mr. ricci. >> think you. mr. ricci? >> i did want to say that i sincerely appreciate being invited over here to discuss the business systems as well. as our interpretations to regulations governing them. you know, i understand that it's unpopular, but it is our best interpretation of the regulations as they exist today, as well as long-standing practice. but, you know, we will look at proposing additional regulatory changes that we think will help us to do a better job at getting correction. and will also work, the final thing i want to mention is that over the past, say 15 years, decade of acquisition reform, th