Global Linguist Solutions, a joint venture between DynCorp International and AECOM National Security Program, is one of several vendors for the military’s broad Defense Language Interpretation and Translation Enterprise, a $9.7 billion contract for linguist services in the Middle East. The contractor has barred its employees from leaving Army posts in Kuwait after local police […]
Battered by the scandals surrounding security failures in Benghazi and allegations of criminal activity by diplomats, the State Department is taking over the sensitive process by which background checks are given to locals hired to work at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, the largest and most expensive diplomatic post in the world. The process is […]
For every U.S. service member serving in Afghanistan, there are 1.6 Defense contractors on the ground (and on the payroll) in supporting roles. Contractors make up 62 percent of the force there -- 108,000 versus 65,700 troops, watchdog agency reports reveal. The Congressional Research Service, in a May 17 report obtained by Steven Aftergood of […]
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Trust and Cascade Investment, an asset management firm owned by Bill Gates - one of the world's richest people - increased their combined holding in G4S to 3.2 percent last week by acquiring around 6 million more shares, G4S said on Monday. G4S, which runs services such as cash […]
The outcome of a court battle between the Army and KBR over the final stages of LOGCAP III, the largest government services contract in U.S. history, could affect tens of thousands of federal contracts while creating “enormous uncertainty” for vendors and the government alike, according to the Justice Department. The warning, delivered in the footnote […]
