Ex-employees sue defense contractors Fluor and KBR in multi-million dollar fraud claim By PHILLIP WALTER WELLMAN | STARS AND STRIPES — A group of six veterans is suing two military contracting companies, claiming they overcharged the government hundreds of millions of dollars for work in Afghanistan. Fluor Corp., which provides services at 70 forward operating bases in northern […]
Hundreds of veterans and their families, who have spent eight years in federal court trying to prove that burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan made U.S. troops sick, are worried they'll hit a legal dead end if a Maryland judge decides the company that ran the smoke-belching disposal sites can't be sued -- because it […]
Lawsuit: US Military Contractor DynCorp Accused of “Enslaving” American Employees in Kuwaiti Tent Cities By Whitney Webb - A recently unsealed lawsuit has accused two U.S. military contractors of treating American citizens working as military translators in the Middle East like “slaves.” The two contractors — DynCorp and its subcontractor, Global Linguist Solutions (GLS) — […]
Army officer files suit after getting shot by Bagram contractor By CHAD GARLAND - The four men on duty had agreed to watch the movie “Anchorman” as they settled into a security shift on Afghanistan’s Bagram Air Field one December afternoon nearly two years ago. Zachary Woods, an Army lieutenant deployed with the 3rd Cavalry Regiment at […]
Torres Advanced Enterprise Solutions, LLC (Torres), of Falls Church, Virginia, the incumbent, protests the award of a contract to G4S Secure Integration LLC (G4S), of Omaha, Nebraska, by the Department of State (DoS), under request for proposals No. SAQMMA17R0396 for local guard services at the U.S. Embassy in Amman, Jordan. Torres contends that the agency […]