§863 ANNUAL JOINT REPORT ON CONTRACTING IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN.

Summary

The Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of State, and the USAID Administrator must send a joint report to the right Congressional committees every 12 months about contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan. They must file the first report by February 1, 2011, and then update it by February 1 each year after that through February 1, 2015. If total annual contract obligations for both countries are under $250,000,000, the agencies can instead send a letter saying that and include any documents they think are needed. Each report must cover at least a 12‑month period and must say how many contracts were awarded and active, the total value awarded and active, how much competition was used and the percent versus competition goals, how many contractor staff worked each quarter and how many did security work each quarter, and how many contractor staff were killed or wounded. The report must also say what data sources were used, any known data limits, and any plans to improve the shared contract databases. If actual counts of contractor staff are not possible, the agencies may use estimates but must clearly say where and how much they used estimates.