Last week, the public learned that DynCorp International was named in a lawsuit accusing it of defrauding the U.S. Army on a contract to fight international drug-funded terrorism. The complaint, filed in June 2013 by two DynCorp employees, was unsealed last week after the federal government declined to intervene. DynCorp worked as a subcontractor to […]
KBR Inc., the Houston-based defense and engineering contractor that has been sued in Oregon and Texas by soldiers who say the company knowingly exposed them to carcinogens in Iraq, has taken its defense to the U.S. Supreme Court. The company has asked the Supreme Court to determine whether soldiers should be allowed to sue the […]
G4S-SJC, LLC, of Fort Worth, Texas, protests the award of an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to Black Construction/MACE International, JV (BC/MI), of Barrigada, Guam, under request for proposals (RFP) No. N62742-13-R-1303, issued by the Department of the Navy, Naval Facilities Engineering Command, for design-build and design-bid-build construction on the island of Diego Garcia, British Indian Ocean Territory. […]
WASHINGTON — Afghanistan's disputed election and Iraq's unraveling are giving members of Congress and U.S. allies in the region reason to think President Barack should rethink his decision to withdraw virtually all Americans troops from Afghanistan by the close of 2016. The White House says Afghanistan is different from Iraq, mired in sectarian violence since […]
According to Fed Biz Opps the U.S. Army has posted a solicitation for Security Assistance Mentors and Advisors (SAMA) in Iraq. President Obama previously ordered up to 300 military advisers to Iraq in mid-June to assist Iraqi security forces and assess intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance assets in the region about 500 or so who are now on […]