§863 Annual Joint Report on Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Summary

Each year the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of State, and the USAID Administrator must send a joint report to the right congressional committees about contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan. The report must cover, at minimum, numbers and dollar values of contracts (awarded and active), how much competition was used and how that compares to goals, quarterly counts of contractor workers (including those doing security), and contractor deaths and injuries. It must also say what data sources were used, any limits in the data or methods, and any plans to improve common contract databases. The report must cover at least 12 months. The first report was due by February 1, 2011, and updated reports were required by February 1 each year through February 1, 2015. If total annual contract obligations for both countries combined are under $250,000,000 for all three agencies, they may send a letter instead, with whatever documentation they think is needed. If exact counts of contractor staff are not possible, they may use estimates but must clearly say how much is estimated.