A new report from the Center for Public Integrity has found US government contracts for work in Iraq and Afghanistan has more than doubled since 2004. Last year the US government awarded $25 billion in contracts. Almost half of the money went to KBR, the global engineering and construction firm. Up until April, KBR was a subsidiary of Halliburton, Vice President Dick Cheney’s former company. The total dollar value of KBR’s contracts was nearly nine times greater than those awarded to DynCorp, the second-largest contractor in Iraq and Afghanistan. Twenty billion dollars in contracts also went to unidentified foreign companies whose identities have been impossible to determine.