Defense Agency Proposes Outsourcing More Spying / Contracts Worth $1 Billion Would Set Record
Source: By Walter Pincus, Washington Post, Sunday, August 19, 2007
The Defense Intelligence Agency is preparing to pay private contractors up to $1 billion to conduct core intelligence tasks of analysis and collection over the next five years, an amount that would set a record in the outsourcing of such functions by the Pentagon's top spying agency.
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