The Obama administration's top procurement policy official stated to the Senate that the sixteen federal intelligence agencies together make a “model of sensitivity” based on their rebalancing of dependency on contractors in the past decade or so. 

In the opening of the hearing, however, Sen. Daniel Akaka, D-Hawaii, the chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Oversight of Government Management, the Federal Workforce and the District of Columbia, showed concern that federal government is exceedingly clinging on to contractors. He cautioned of the understaffed and undertrained federal acquisition workforce and probable conflict of interest among the contractors after referring to a Washington Post report from last year that 30 percent of intelligence workforce is contractors. 

Do you think the government relies too heavily on contractors? What about your agency? How can we decrease dependency on contractors government-wide?