Five government contractors account for 80% of America’s surveillance workforce / Boing Boing
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All told, the Big 5 (Leidos, Booz, CSRA, SAIC, CACI) account for 80% of that $50B annual pork barrel paycheck for assisting America’s spy agencies. This is an unprecedented level of concentration in the intelligence-industrial complex. This situation has created a seller’s market for intelligence services, where too-big-to-fail contractors operate with impunity in a cash-rich, unsupervised, secret industry, able to call the NSA’s shots.
The Big 5 supply the majority of the spy agencies’ staff, including senior staffers who report directly to agency directors. The total numbers, and the money involved, are both secrets, and can only be estimated through indirect means.