Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA)
The Coalition Provisional Authority is empowered by the United Nations to "exercise powers of government temporarily in order to provide for the effective administration of Iraq during the period of transitional administration, to restore conditions of security and stability, to create conditions in which the Iraqi people can freely determine their own political future, including by advancing efforts to restore and establish national and local institutions for representative governance and facilitating economic recovery and sustainable reconstruction and development."

United States Agency for International Development
USAID was the lead agency in the first round of Iraq reconstruction funding, awarding over $2 billion in contracts and grants. The agency will work to award contracts in the second round, but will be directed by the new Iraq Infrastructure Reconstruction office.

Project on Government Oversight
The Project on Government Oversight investigates, exposes, and seeks to remedy systemic abuses of power, mismanagement, and subservience by the federal government to powerful special interests. POGO's "Defense Investigations" expose wasteful military spending, the inappropriate influence that contractors wield over government decision-making, and weapons that do not work.

Center for Responsive Politics
Last updated in April 2003, the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics posts the campaign contributions of the companies that were awarded reconstruction contracts. Figures listed represent total contributions made between 1999 and 2002, and include PAC, soft money and individual contributions to federal candidates, party committees and leadership PACs.

Center for Public Integrity
The nonpartisan Center for Public Integrity conducted a six-month investigation on the American companies and individuals that won contracts for work in postwar Iraq and Afghanistan. The Center reports that "it did not appear that any one government agency knew the total number of contractors or what they were doing." Read the full report, "Windfalls of War," on the Center's Web site.