Structure and dynamics of the U.S. federal services industrial base, 2000-2010

"The U.S. government has a permanent and, until recently, growing reliance on contracts with the private sector for a wide range of services. For the past six years, the Defense-Industrial Initiatives Group (DIIG) at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) has tracked the trends driving the services industry. For the first time since the initiation of this project in 2005, this report analyzes the trends for all services through 2010, the most recent full fiscal year for which reliable data from the Federal Procurement Data System (FPDS) are available. To account for the effects of inflation, all dollar figures, with the exception of thresholds used to judge contract size, are in 2010 dollars."