Julian Assange

All over the world, the barriers between what is inside an organisation and outside an organisation are being smoothed out. In the military, the use of contractors means that what is the military and what is not the military is smoothed out.

Australian Activist

Ivanka Trump

When I bid out our construction projects, I call contractors personally to close the deal and get the best price or enhance the scope of their deliverable. You don't get what you don't ask for.

American Businesswoman

Maynard Webb

Independent contractors - a rapidly growing piece of the workforce - can often achieve the best quality of life. They can choose from where they work, whom they work for and for how long.

American Author

Genevieve Gorder

I will not do work that isn't done well or right. Stuff happens - things break, contractors don't come through - but I don't want to be responsible for not doing something correctly.

American Designer

James Surowiecki

Defense contractors are able to reap tremendous profits while rarely confronting the risks for which those profits are supposed to be the reward.

American Journalist

Elon Musk

It is true that SpaceX is partially a government contractor, but it would be unfair to say that SpaceX is entirely a government contractor.

South African Businessman

Jon Ossoff

Both parties in Washington waste too much of your money. When I worked there, I helped expose waste and abuse by government contractors.

American Director

Grace Potter

I was a general contractor when I was paying for my first record.

American Musician

Erik Prince

I never intended to be a defense contractor in the first place.

American Businessman

Enda Kenny

I have never been on the trail of developers or contractors.

Irish Politician

Contractors can be individuals or entire companies hired for their services.

Types of Contractors

A contractor often works on a project-to-project basis, not continually.

Project Specific

Contractors work under a contract, outlining the work and payment details.

Legal Agreements

A military contractor is not active-duty military but provides services privately.

Private Sector Role

Military contractors can have specific tasks like security or surveillance.

Security Tasks

Building contractors have skills in construction and often hold trade qualifications.

Specialized Skills

Contractors in the building domain can specialize in remodeling existing structures.

Remodeling Expertise

 and maybe, maybe on my most glorious day, it was keeping someone's credit card information from being stolen. Those are important things, but that's not how I wanted to spend my life. But after 30 minutes of work as a defense contractor, I soon found out that my idea of cyber

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 to take them to very far-reaching areas to make these things worth work we got back feedback from some contractors who said that thank you for showing us that the problems of the challenges are so huge some of them went to sink water wells and I'm getting there found that

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 And out of all the solutions that I could come up with, out of going to Congress, when there were no laws, there were no legal protections for a private employee, a contractor in intelligence like myself, there was a risk that I would be buried along with the information

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 And we also had to become the contractors because we failed at finding somebody willing to share the risk with us. Now, luckily, we convinced the quarry team to help us build a few prototypes to resolve some of the technical details. And we agreed on a few mock-ups,

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 It releases cortisol that raises your heart rate, it modulates adrenaline levels and it clouds your thinking. So the next morning, when I woke up on too little sleep, worrying about the hole in the window, and a mental note that I had to call my contractor,

How to stay calm when...

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 imagine if we did other things in our life that way. Say, home-building. So we bring in the contractor and say, "We were told we have two weeks to build a foundation. Do what you can."

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 So the question is, how hard would it be to assemble this, right? How big a contractor team would you need to put this universe together, right? That's the issue, right?

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 attack because it is home to some of the largest defense contractors in the world because he thinks they could be destroyed in an attack he has his own

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 down the valley snow has stopped the contractors in their tracks they've