The Senate recently agreed to make the Pentagon compile annual reports on contracting fraud. The provision by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) was added to a Department of Defense authorization bill. “This country has a $16 trillion national debt. It is unacceptable that the Department of Defense continues to lose vast sums of taxpayer money because […]
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Army has been struggling with corruption in Kuwait. Federal prosecutors have been investigating Army officers deployed in Kuwait’s Camp Arifjan suspected of taking bribes in return for contracts. In at least one case, a procurement officer sentenced to jail for corruption was replaced by another who was arrested on the same […]
Houston, Texas — November 15, 2012 — Kellogg, Brown, and Root announced today that the United States has voluntarily dismissed its False Claims Act case it filed against the company. On April 1, 2010, the United States sued KBR for damages claiming that KBR had violated the False Claims Act by billing under LOGCAP III, which is […]
The United States has filed a civil complaint against Kellogg, Brown & Root Services Inc. (KBR) and First Kuwaiti Trading Company for submitting inflated claims for the delivery and installation of trailers to house troops in Iraq, the Justice Department announced today. KBR is headquartered in Houston. First Kuwaiti, a KBR subcontractor, is based in […]
On November 16, 2012 DynCorp International, was awarded an $80M cost-plus-fixed-fee contract. The award will provide for the mentoring and training of the Afghanistan National Army. Work will be performed in Afghanistan, with an estimated completion date of Oct. 31, 2013. Despite the success stories of the establishment of Afghanistan’s National Army, there is still […]
