Respirate

Will We See the Gradual Nationalization of Government Contractors?

With due respect to Jack Gordon's experience, I submit that's not always the case.

He said, "... support contracts are recompeted at regular intervals ... you have to change hats & do the same work at lower pay for the new contractor (or else move out of town), it's called wage busting..."

There are long term DoD operations in which the winning contract bidder hires essentially all of the existing employees, including management, at the same or better compensation. The name on the prime contractor's letterhead changes from Lockheed to Johnson Controls to Raytheon to Boeing back to Raytheon, but the change is mostly immaterial to the employees. They're still performing the same operations on government-owned (GO-CO) equipment.

It depends on the functional level of the work, but often the new prime contractor can't afford to lose the expertise already in place.

--R