- Long Description
- Costs to Taxpayers. Using Blackwater instead of U.S. troops to protect embassy officials
is expensive. Blackwater charges the government $1,222 per day for the services of a private
military contractor. This is equivalent to $445,000 per year, over six times more than the cost of
an equivalent U.S. soldier. In total, Blackwater has received over $1 billion in federal contracts
from 2001 through 2006, including more than $832 million under two contracts with the State
Department to provide protective services in Iraq.
- File Title
- Committee on Oversight and Government Reform-Blackwater USA-Oct 07
- File
- Benefit/Value
Discusses the cost to the taxpayer of hiring contractors to perform services in a contingency environment versus using Military to perform those same services
- Keywords
- contractor; contingency
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