Use your experience and expertise to support Defense Department operations overseas by volunteering to deploy as a member of the U.S. Central Command’s Civilian Expeditionary Workforce. The CENTCOM CEW allows current DOD civilian employees to use their initiative, capabilities, experiences, skills and knowledge to support the DoD in accomplishing its mission overseas. Employees interested in applying […]
Americans are at risk all over the world. Our military, still the best in the world, can’t be everywhere, all the time. In recent years, the government has increased its reliance on private security contractors. Unfortunately, the results are not always great. Probably the most striking examples of failed private military or security operations involve […]
Recently, the Supreme Court found that lawsuits against the American contractor that operated the burn pits, KBR, could move forward. KBR had argued that it couldn’t be sued because it had operated the burn pits for the government. The Court issued no statement, but the lawsuits will go back to trial courts. The high court […]
WASHINGTON — The Department of Defense only has about 250 civilian contractors in Iraq supporting the 2,700 US troops deployed there; but a handful of new solicitations and potential contracts may soon add to that number, according to items posted to a federal contracting Web site. For the past two decades, the resource-heavy American way […]
Erik Prince has a message for ISIS: You’re lucky Blackwater is gone... Last week, the controversial founder of the private military company had plenty to say about what the organization he once ran could be doing in the fight against the so-called Islamic State—and also why Republicans need to stop being such losers. “It’s a […]