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  title info:
    title: Defense Base Act (DBA)
    sub title: The Federally Mandated Workers' Compensation System for Overseas Government Contractors
  name:
    name part: Library of Congress
    name part: Congressional Research Service.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: ProQuest (Firm)
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: dcu
    date issued: 2009
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: preservation
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  abstract: Provides background on the Defense Base Act (DBA), which mandates that Federal departments and agencies provide worker compensation insurance for their overseas employees and contractors; in light of current contracting activity in Iraq. Reviews systems used to provide DBA insurance at the Department of State, AID, DOD, and Army Corps of Engineers (USACE). Includes economic critiques raised by GAO and Army auditors of current DOD DBA policy; and DOD and USACE responses to those criticisms. Discusses several DBA reform options suggested in recent legislation. Includes tables and graphs.
  note: Record is based on bibliographic data in ProQuest U.S. Congressional Research Digital Collection (last viewed Dec. 2010). Reuse except for individual research requires license from ProQuest, LLC.
  note: CRS Report.
  note: Electronic resource.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Accounting
  subject:
    topic: Defense contracts
  subject:
    topic: Administrative agencies
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Defense Base Act (DBA)
    name:
      name part: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.
  related item:
    title info:
      title: U.S. Congressional Research
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  record info:
    record content source: ProQuest
    record creation date: 101223
    record change date: 20260605160134.2
    record identifier: in00003407934