The Evolving Contingency Contracting Market PKSOI Papers | Seite 13

Security sector reform and development companies (SSR&Ds) are firms that provide long term strategic solutions to weak and failed states. These entities operate with the goal of ensuring the creation of
governmental and societal stability and structure that
will eventually allow interventions to be scaled back
(if employed), and ultimately result in a successful
conclusion. SSR&Ds provide development services,
long term training, and security reform training and
advising. These reforms are aimed at making permanent improvements in a state’s capacity and strategic
position to self-govern a durable stabilization process.
The following table illustrates the diversity of services that private firms have excelled in providing to
governments over the past decade-plus of contingency contracting in complex environments. Just as OSD
describes, “‘Contingency contracting’ encompasses
all contracting performed in a contingency environment (declared and non-declared), including military
operations, stability operations, natural disasters,
humanitarian, and other calamitous events.”11 These
contra