Gen. Tim Malishenko, the agency director. The agency has 13,000 people with 70 offices around the world. The headquarters will remain at Belvoir. There are few things DoD buys that the agency doesn't have something to do with, Malishenko said. Once they award these contracts they often come to us after they are awarded to make sure that the contractors are delivering quality products on time for good value.
Service members assigned to Kosovo have the agency to thank for their camps.
Typically, we're on the first airplane out. In Kosovo, agency personnel worked with the Army Corps of Engineers and the contractor Brown and Root to build the main U.S. camps. For the soldiers working there it means hot food, warm showers, clean clothes and a warm, dry place to sleep. A Kosovo winter without those elements would be one miserable place, so we think we really made a difference. Malishenko said being a separate agency will make it easier to implement some management reforms.