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Gansler: More Incentives Needed For Wartime Contractors

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Tuesday, April 26th, 2011

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By Emelie Rutherford A former Pentagon official argued before a bipartisan commission yesterday for more emphasis on incentives and less on punishments for wartime contractors--comments that follow similar calls for the Pentagon to use positive methods to motivate defense firms. Jacques Gansler, the under secretary of defense for acquisition, technology, and logistics, under former President Bill Clinton, told the commission that he did not agree with all 32 proposals in its second interim report on reducing waste tied to contractors…

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