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Monthly ReviewAdditional number of American troops President Obama plans to deploy to Afghanistan:
30,000Total number of U.S. troops that will be there after the deployment:
98,000Number of private contractors working for the U.S. in Afghanistan as of September 2009:
104,101Percent by which that number grew between June and September:
40Percent of the Defense Department’s workforce in Afghanistan accounted for by contractors:
57Number of conflicts in U.S. history involving a higher percentage of contractors:
0Percent of the U.S. presence on the ground during the Vietnam War accounted for by contractors:
13Percent of the Defense Department’s 2008 budget devoted to contracts and grants:
82Estimated value of Defense Department contracts in Afghanistan awarded to Texas-based Fluor and Virginia’s DynCorp:
$7.5 billionAmount Fluor’s PAC contributed to federal candidates in 2008:
$305,499Amount DynCorp’s PAC contributed to federal candidates in 2008:
$51,999Date on which a financial analyst announced that Fluor and DynCorp stood to benefit from deployment of additional troops to Afghanistan:
12/2/2009Amount by which Fluor’s share prices rose in that afternoon’s trading:
33 centsAmount by which DynCorp’s share prices rose:
30 centsMonth in which DynCorp disclosed in a regulatory filing that it had made payments to expedite visas and licenses, potentially violating the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act:
11/2009The estimated total for these illegal payments:
$300,000Date on which an investigation was announced on behalf of DynCorp investors over possible securities law violations by the company:
12/3/2009Value of a U.S. contract with DynCorp to train Iraqi police that federal auditors said was so mismanaged they were unable to determine how the money was spent:
$1.2 billionYear in which the U.S. Commission on Wartime Contracting is scheduled to release a comprehensive study of contracting in war zones:
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