Report: KBR Dominates Iraq, Afghan Contracting

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Source: ABC News: The Blotter

Report: KBR Dominates Iraq, Afghan Contracting

November 20, 2007 10:44 AM
Justin Rood Reports:

Former Halliburton subsidiary KBR, Inc. has won more contract work in recent years with the U.S. government than any other firm operating in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a new report.

The Bush administration has awarded the company, once known as Kellogg, Brown and Root, more than $16 billion for work in Iraq and Afghanistan between 2004 and 2006, the Center for Public Integrity found.

That figure dwarfs the total contracting dollars won by other corporations working on behalf of the United States in the two occupied countries. DynCorp International, the security firm which ranked second in CPI's report, brought in less than $2 billion in federal dollars, mostly for the State Department, the group found.

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PI said it based its study on contractor data available through the General Services Administration. It cautioned that there are holes in the information. For instance, the government has contracted nearly $20 billion in work to unnamed businesses located outside the United States -- "a nebulous collection of companies identified by the U.S. government only as 'foreign contractors,'" CPI reported.

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