The purpose of the Afghanistan Transportation Network (ATN) is to provide commercial transportation alternatives in the Afghanistan Combined Joint Operations Area (CJOA) while promoting counterinsurgency (COIN) objectives. The overarching ATN plan is to make operations, expansion and partnering decisions in close coordination with US military commanders to ensure the ATN supports their regional COIN objectives. […]
Virginia-based Computer Sciences Corporation has reached a definitive agreement with Pacific Architects and Engineers – PAE for the sale of its base operations, aviation and range services business unit, Applied Technology Division (ATD), for $175 million in cash. CSC acquired ATD with the 2003 purchase of DynCorp.
The State Department is pushing a new initiative to ensure contractors and others serving in the department’s diplomatic security corps in Afghanistan and Israel are not abusing opiates, amphetamines, steroids, cocaine and other hard drugs. Recent weeks saw the department solicit bids from private companies to carry out “random and nonrandom substance testing” on a […]
A former contract employee of the U.S. Defense Department (DoD) was sentenced today to serve 35 months in prison for his participation in a bribery and money laundering scheme arising from corruption in the award of defense contracts at Camp Arifjan, an Army base in Kuwait, announced Acting Assistant Attorney General Mythili Raman of the […]
The recipient of the largest government services contract in U.S. history has told military officials it will take another 13 years and half a billion dollars to finish off its work stemming from the Iraq war. This assessment from KBR Inc., which won the $38 billion deal from the U.S. Army way back in 2001, […]
