Pentagon contracting officials directly move into contractor executive roles

Evidence

Supreme’s chief commercial officer, the former Army lieutenant general Robert Dail, provides a prime example of the revolving door between the Pentagon and its contractors. From August 2006 to November 2008, Dail headed the Pentagon’s Defense Logistics Agency, which awards the Pentagon’s food contracts. In 2007, Dail presented Supreme with DLA’s “New Contractor of the Year Award.” Four months after leaving the Pentagon, he became the president of Supreme Group USA. — David Vine, Base Nation_ How U.S. Military Bases…, 702

Categorization

• XREF: Reinforces the revolving-door patterns documented throughout the book’s earlier chapters on base economies.