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

all right, chairman thibault. members of the commission, thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today. as always, i am pleased to be here. as requested, i will describe the audit effort performance by dcaa on the wind was contract with emphasis on the costs and functions of subcontractors. and the business relationship of dyncorp international. a more detailed account is provided in the statements that i've request be sedated for the record. >> it will. >> the contract that is the subject of the hearing today was awarded in december 2007, as was previously described. it is being performed by dyncorp, global linguist solutions which i will hereafter referred to as gls. gls is located in fort worth, texas. after several reorganizations of gls in april 2009, it became its own segment reporting directly to the corporate home office of dyncorp international. gls uses dyncorp international business systems, which are all operated out of its fort worth location. of the current value of the contract of four-po

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

thibault for his extraordinary generosity. characteristic of him but extraordinary nevertheless it mr. walter. we her testimony this morning i april stephenson about the problems, and this is in the context of a drawdown of contractors in iraq. problems by kbr's labor system. you may have heard this, excuse me for once again setting the stage. i sat with general odierno. he shared his challenges and perceptions. and he said, i am shortening this now quote we have looked at logcap as we close the spaces. that is the plan, close to camp, close the bases and shrink the footprint and the costs. the footprint, meaning the number of people, both contractors and soldiers. that's the footprint. shrink it. . . o make logcap accountable. logcap in iraq means kbr and its subcontractors. can't mean anybody else.@@@@@@ >> i fact question that? >> i do not have access to the final dcaa audit report that was associated. i do have bits and pieces of it. i do have the piece on the $1 billion of unsupported cost which i would like to make the c

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thibault. mr. thibault, members of the commission on behalf of the employees of global linguistics solutions i want to thank you for the opportunity to contribute to the goa and to participate in this very important process of approving coingencies contracting. mcneil technologies for global linguistics solutions as a joint venture in december, 26 for the sole purpose of executing a u.s. army contract to provide interpreters and translators in support of operation iraqi freedom. the company has no other business interests to compete for the attention of the senior management to deliberately build a leadership team whose effort would be devoted to the success with the single critically important contract. fromecember, 2006, when the contract was first awarded until march of 2008 when an uninterrupted performance commenced we continued to refine leadership and management staff, plan for transition and recruit native american earmarks speakers throughout the united states to ensure the troops serving

thibault, i respect and draw on his deep insight into these systems. i could not look into them without him. at the may 4 hearing, we expressed our concern that the army contracting command might not take dcaa's offer to audit contractor proposals on the logcap iv task orders. to put in contract for people, we're still trying to stand up logcap iv, proposals come in from contractors for logcap iv, the first iteration, iraq, afghanistan, obviously high importance, you were willing to audit it, mr. parsons pledged to us at that hearing a lot of cooperation with you. what happened? >> i have to admit i tried every angle possible to get with the preorder audits. i have met with mr. parsons. he did follow-through on his effort to me. i met with charlie williams, leigh thompson, i even went to -- within atnl i met with ashea assad and as mr. parsons mentioned we had a meeting where i brought in every one of my executives involved with the three contractors and we had a meeting with the individuals responsible for awarding the task orders for afghanistan, an

thibault. [inaudible] >> i need a microphone, okay. thank you. had a couple of points, three maybe, or questions and points and then i'm going to do for five minutes of my time to professor kiefer who has been leading the commission efforts on logistical support since the three companies are logistical support. i thought that made sense but i'm salvaging my last five minutes. you don't get any of that, professor. mr. methot, i just want to share something and then kind of calibrate and give you an opportunity. in your statement, page five, you don't have to look it up it is only $0.01 you probably haven't more comfortable than i do. you make a statement that fluor business systems have received multiple reviews over the years and were determined to be adequate by the u.s. government. what i want to share with you, and it is all marked up that because of anything any company did, but because i was trying to understand that and because it points to some of the coordination and issues within the government. but the point is that it shows those nine

thibault, i can wait for a minute if he wants to respond. i can wait. >> would you like to respond to that now or later. >> no, sir, there's no need to. >> are you going to respond at all? >> i guess not, what, to the allegation he just made. >> i don't think it's productive for me to respond to that allegation. i've already made my statement. it's on the record as well as the written testimony. >> well, surely if a commissioner asks you a question you ought to answer it. >> sir, it wasn't a question. >> put a question mark after it, charlie. you did in your statement describe the functions. i described the ones you don't know. what do you think my characterization that you are a do-little contract? >> i respectfully disagree, sir. commissioner henke? >> following on that fruitful dialog, i'd like to understand some of the numbers that have been tossed around. we have a chart here that says, l-3 you employ exclusive u.s. hires, right? >> that is my understanding, yes, sir. >> okay. so you employ u.s. hires and you have 733 linguists accordin