National Regulations
United States
The United States is the world's largest consumer of private military and security services and has a long history of contracting with the private sector. Because of the widespread use of private military and security contractors within the U.S. government, regulation and oversight is diffuse, split among Congress, federal agencies, and specially-created oversight commissions. Private military and security contractors are subject to a complex set of laws and regulations, and their activities are reviewed and reported on by more than 20 federal oversight bodies and committees. Many U.S. regulations are new and respond to concerns generated by the U.S. government's use of private military and security contracts in Iraq and Afghanistan.
This section contains a comprehensive collection of laws and regulations that direct the U.S. government's overseas use of private military and security contractors, and the audits, hearings, and reports concerning PMSCs issued by U.S. government agencies and committees. Also included in the "Federal Laws" section are U.S. statutes that establish the legal liability of overseas government contractors and their personnel for criminal and tortuous acts committed outside the United States.
U.S. Data
Regulations
- Federal Laws and Regulations
- Agency Regulations and Instructions
- Status of Forces Agreements
- Contracts
Research & Oversight Bodies
- Commission on Wartime Contracting
- Congressional Budget Office
- Congressional Research Service
- Government Accountability Office
- Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
- Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction
- U.S. Department of State Office of Inspector General
- USAID Office of Inspector General
- U.S. Department of Defense Office of Inspector General
- Defense Contract Audit Agency
- Defense Contract Management Agency
- Defense Science Board
- U.S. Army Audit Agency
- Naval Audit Service
- Air Force Audit Agency
- Specially Constituted Commissions
U.S. Senate and House Committee Testimony and Reports
- U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations
- U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee
- U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
- U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
- U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary
- U.S. Senate Democratic Policy and Communications Committee
- U.S. House of Representatives Committee On Appropriations
- U.S. House of Representatives Armed Services Committee
- U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
- U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs
- U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary