http://dangerzonejobs.com/blog helping speed up your overseas job search... Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:55:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Los Angeles Times and ProPublica spent more than 18 months examining the hidden world of civilian contractor injuries. Reporters and photographers tracked down and interviewed more than 200 contractors, family members, government, military and corporate officials. The Times also reviewed more than 10,000 pages of court documents, previously undisclosed ... http://dangerzonejobs.com/blog/?p=154 The Government Accountability Office released a report on March 24th, part of which dealt with the various issues facing the future use of contractors in Iraq. I have extracted the relevent material here. You can find the full report Iraq: Key Issues for Congressional Oversight here. Background The Departments of Defense(DOD) and State ... http://dangerzonejobs.com/blog/?p=149 Just in case you find yourself returning back to the US, Clearancejobs.com has released some information about the top ten cities with defense jobs. Here is their release, which you might find of interest: In every recession, there is a bull market somewhere. In 2009, it's for security-cleared professionals in the defense, ... http://dangerzonejobs.com/blog/?p=142 This new update reports on DoD contractor personnel numbers and covers DoD contractor personnel deployed in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM) area of responsibility (AOR) as of December 31, 2008. Ending 1st quarter FY 2009, USCENTCOM reported approximately 259,400 contractor personnel working for the DoD in the USCENTCOM ... http://dangerzonejobs.com/blog/?p=134 Jake Allen, an American security contractor currently living in Norway, has launched CombatOperator.com, which includes an ezine called Sitrep and a podcast called Combat Operator Radio. The website is found at: http://www.combatoperator.com and you can sign up for Sitrep there. Combat Operator Radio can be heard on the right side of this ... http://dangerzonejobs.com/blog/?p=125 As I mentioned in a previous post, I plan to reread all my contracting-related books and review them here. In the meantime, here are my 20 favorite books plus 3 DVDs. There are certainly more than these, but this is a good starting point. They are in no particular order ... http://dangerzonejobs.com/blog/?p=122 There were two big stories that the media chewed on last week: KBR announced it has been awarded a $35.4 million contract by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Transatlantic Programs Center, Winchester, Va., for the Phase II design and construction of a convoy support center at Camp Adder in ... http://dangerzonejobs.com/blog/?p=108 I decided to reread and then review all the books I own that are related to private contractors. I will choose their order with a highly scientific method: by pulling them off the shelf from left to right. First up is the story of Thomas Hamill, a KBR truck driver, ... http://dangerzonejobs.com/blog/?p=93 James Jay Carafano, an expert at the Heritage Foundation and West Point graduate, has written an interesting backgrounder article called Contracting in Combat: Advice for the Commission on Wartime Contracting. Carafano is also the author of a book I am currently reading called: Private Sector/Public Wars: Contracting in Combat-Iraq, Afghanistan ... http://dangerzonejobs.com/blog/?p=81 The Congressional Research Service released a report in late December 2008 called Training the Military to Manage Contractors During Expeditionary Operations: Overview and Options for Congress (Adobe Reader required). The report offered several interesting facts about the number and make up of contractors in Iraq. According to DOD, as of July ... http://dangerzonejobs.com/blog/?p=78