A defense contractor producing products and services for U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan agreed to repay the government $27.5 million to settle overbilling charges brought under the False Claims Act. “Contractors that knowingly bill the government in violation of contract terms will face serious consequences,” said acting Assistant Attorney General Joyce Branda. “The department […]
Seven years ago, Blackwater Worldwide founder Erik Prince was on Capitol Hill, defending the company he founded as it faced allegations that his employees had shot up a square in Baghdad a few weeks prior on Sept. 16, 2007, killing 14 civilians and wounding 17 others. Prince insisted that day that all of his employees had acted […]
U.S. and Kyrgyzstan officials jointly opened two border posts constructed by the Middle East District with ribbon cutting ceremonies at Aikol and Kulundu in the southern region of Batken in early December 2014. The two new border posts were funded by the USCENTCOM Counter Narcotics Program, enabling a greater presence of the state border service […]
MOSCOW — The US private military company Academi (formerly known as Blackwater) has confirmed its readiness to start training a Ukrainian battalion for street fighting, a military-diplomatic source told TASS on Tuesday. “The private military company Academi has confirmed to the Kiev authorities its readiness to start training an experimental battalion of 550 men as […]
The competition to build the U.S. Army's next service pistol is heating up. Currently the Pentagon is not happy with its current standard-issue Beretta M9 semiautomatic pistol. Common complaints range from the lack of stopping power of 9mm bullets fired from the M9, to concerns about the reliability of the weapon itself -- and its cost. […]