Rob Portman actually said...

In 2009, you guys started an insourcing initiative and the goal, as I understand it, was to replace 30,000 contractors with DOD civilians be...

There has not been enough talk about freezing the size of the contracting force and freezing the pay of contractors.

Assuming that contractors cost less and that the Federal employees cost more does not help this discussion.

We need to develop a best practices model to help determine when contracting will save taxpayer dollars.