WASHINGTON — Despite all of the talk in the Pentagon and among the defense intelligentsia in Washington about the "new normal"— the present era of battling Islamic extremists while putting out security and humanitarian brushfires across the globe — there has really never been a "normal" year when it comes to national security. And 2015 […]
U.S. Investigations Services may have found the only way to salvage the bulk of the remaining business and save the jobs of nearly 2,000 employees – selling its Global Security and Solutions business to PAE. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but the Global Security and Solutions business essentially was all that remained of […]
BACKGROUND: This report updates DoD contractor personnel numbers in theater and outlines DoD efforts to improve management of contractors accompanying U.S. forces. It covers DoD contractor personnel deployed in Afghanistan (Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF)) and the U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM) area of responsibility (AOR). KEY POINTS: In 1st quarter FY 2015, USCENTCOM reported approximately 54,700 contractor personnel working for the […]
KABUL, AFGHANISTAN — An Afghan-international security force detained several suspected militants in northern Kandahar province Wednesday while pursuing a senior Taliban commander. A newly established NATO command was activated in Camp Eggers in Kabul, as the Combined Security Transition Command -Afghanistan merged with the new NATO Training Mission - Afghanistan to create a unified command for […]
Last week brought a new development in a nearly four-year-old fraud lawsuit accusing private security firm Triple Canopy of providing security guards in Iraq who lacked basic firearms proficiency. In March 2011, former Triple Canopy employee Omar Badr filed a False Claims Act (FCA) lawsuit alleging the company billed the government for hundreds of Ugandan guards at […]