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Ten percent of the more than $50 billion in U.S. funded reconstruction projects in Iraq have been administered by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

It hasn’t been easy. Nearly every aspect of the U.S. effort here has been dogged by critics of faulty planning and budgeting or projects that came in sub-par or over-budget.

USACE’s Gulf Region Division is no exception: an audit this year cited GRD for its part in cost overruns and underperformance of its subcontractor Kellogg, Brown & Roo…

By Ben Lando of Iraq Oil Report
Published December 1, 2009

Ten percent of the more than $50 billion in U.S. funded reconstruction projects in Iraq have been administered by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

It hasn’t been easy. Nearly every aspect of the U.S. effort here has been dogged by critics of faulty planning and budgeting or projects that came in sub-par or over-budget.

USACE’s Gulf Region Division is no exception: an audit this year cited GRD for its part in cost overruns and underperformance of its subcontractor Kellogg, Brown & Roo…

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