mr. thibault coming of the floor. stack thank stack thank you, mr. shays. for fear of beating a dead horse and my horse is going to get pulverized bit oddly what i want to go back to mr. laboa and i think he said it well because i understood it. in this discussion about what you do, you said when asked what your responsibility, you said the statement delineates a number of people at paypal first major confederate. he said the second one is unique communication from the military to the aco to that some form of direction, it don't need the capability. and then we are not and this is wearing beating the poor horse to say that four times and then you clarified it and you give communications and use it to write knowledge because i didn't understand the qualifier. but for the record, can you please provide off for of those notifications, the nature of them and you gave them? if your e-mails, great. then it's just a note. if there was verbal, favorable by someone so to someone so because i realized notification can take a lot of reform. so i have that request. >>

mr. thibault who had asked me had i -- had i heard about this particular procurement yet?sioned. i told him i hadn't but that i would look into it. we, in fact, did have -- >> you heard about the contract action from us? >> oh, sure, yeah. it was early on in the process. >> okay. >> it had not yet been decided exactly who was going to contract and what the army's plan was. i had my senior ses who does peer reviews intimately involved in it. and there was a legitimate question as to whether or not this was the appropriate mechanism to use. >> uh-huh. >> osd, frankly, did not necessarily concur with the army's view. >> were you concerned about scope? >> yeah, we were concerned about whether the scope and whether it should be full and open competition or did, in fact, this scope of work fit under the existing delivery contract. there was an honest disagreement amongst several very respected people as to whether or not this was the appropriate way to go. at the end of the day, the army felt that the position that they had taken was a reasoned one. they had a reasonable justifi

mr. thibault who had asked me had i -- had i heard about this particular procurement yet? and the concerns that the commissioned. i told him i hadn't but that i would look into it. we, in fact, did have -- >> you heard about the contract action from us? >> yes. well, it was only -- it was early on in the process. it had not yet been decided exactly who was going to attract and what the army's plan was. the army was -- we did, in fact, have a peer review. i had my senior ses who does peer reviews is intimately involved in it. and there was a legitimate question as to whether or not this was the appropriate mechanism to use. >> uh-huh. >> osd, frankly, did not necessarily concur with the army's view. >> were you concerned about scope? >> yeah. we were concerned about whether the scope and whether it should be full and open competition. or did, in fact -- this scope of work exist under the current contract? there was an honest disagreement amongst several very respected people as to whether or not this was the appropriate way to go. at the end of the day, the army felt that t

mr. ward, and aecom it is, sir. dr. raney? >> chairman thibault chairman shays, distinguished members of -- >> button, please. >> you need to point the mike down. >> got it. i need training. chairman thibault, chairman shays and distinguished members of the commission on wartime contracting. thank you for the opportunity testified before the commission today. my name is terry raney and i'm a senior vice president of caci international that i'm the manager of caci that provides acquisition for the joint contracting command, jcc-i/a. to contracting acquisition and program officers and the department of defense and civilian agencies that i'm a retired air force colonel spent much of my toys and plush and the contracting acquisition workforce. as a contracting officer at the operation of major systems plant represented an secretary level that i was the air force policy member of the acquisition council and also served as the acting associate deputy assistant secretary for contracting in the air force. i was the department chair and course director of