Many intelligence jobs held by private contractors
Source: Associated Press, August 28, 2008
More than a quarter of the U.S. intelligence agencies' employees are nongovernment contractors, hired to fill in gaps in the military and civilian work force, according to a survey of the 16 U.S. intelligence agencies. That is roughly on par with last year's number, the first year the national intelligence director's office tried to count the outside help, Ronald Sanders, the intelligence director's personnel policy chief, told reporters Wednesday.