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“Today’s announcement represents a milestone in SAIC’s priority to shape our portfolio and advance our strategy,” said Nazzic Keene, Chief Executive Officer at SAIC.
“The agreement allows for seamless transition and continued support for the logistics and supply chain management business and their important customer missions, while enabling SAIC to concentrate resources in our Growth & Technology Accelerant areas
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According to sources an U.S. contractor was killed and five service members and one other contractor injured by a drone strike on a coalition base in northeast Syria, reported by the Department of Defense.
The U.S. retaliated with airstrikes on Iranian-linked targets in Syria, which hit buildings that housed drone/aviation assets and vehicles used by groups affiliated with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). One activist group said the U.S. strikes killed fighters on the ground.
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“My plea is aimed at everyone and anyone who might potentially have the means to help us. To those that want to help but do not have the means, please share Gerco’s story far and wide so that we can have everyone make a noise to bring him home."
(POC) — Gerco was kidnapped on November 3, 2017 while on his way to the Awbari power plant where he was employed as an on-site emergency medical practitioner.
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(POC) — Department of Defense has awarded a multiple-award, indefinite‐delivery/indefinite‐quantity contract with a ceiling of $995,000,000 for U.S. Air Forces Europe-Air Forces Africa advisory and assistance services. This contract provides for technical and analytical services to support and improve policy development, decision-making, management, administration, and system operations within the primary users’ areas of responsibility.
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(POC) — Department of Defense has awarded $28,549,056 to provide continued KC130J pilot, enlisted aircrew, and maintenance training support services as well as program management and administrative support services for the government of Kuwait.
Work will be performed in Altus, Oklahoma (13%); and Kuwait (87%), and is expected to be completed in March 2025.
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(POC) — Department of Defense has awarded an additional $13,553,111 to a previously awarded contract with reimbursable elements to exercise a one-year option period for the operation of the Ice-class tanker Stena Polaris to provide support of world-wide bulk fuel requirements of the Department of Defense (DOD) to include biennial delivery to Antarctica for the National Science Foundation, and a delivery each year to Greenland for the DOD/Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Energy.
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(POC) — It has been 20 years since American and coalition forces invaded Iraq on a mission to topple Saddam Hussein’s dictatorship and find weapons of mass destruction.
43rd President George W. Bush and his administration wagered to the American public and the international community that Hussein was hiding weapons of mass destruction and posed a threat to the United States.
Shortly after Saddam Hussein was knocked out of power, clearing the way for a nation-building project that would stretch for nearly a decade...
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(POC) — New wars have become an arena for private military companies. They could perform greatly as an extra business body to provide external security measures, with new warfare objectives, media potential to depict the conflict, its chronicity, efforts to save military personnel in fight, societal control, occupation campaigns, and their specificity, information acquisition and any tasks related to new civilian institutions. In the context of new warfare, the use of private military force allows shifting the economy from civilian to military purposes, albeit without any harm to the former –– thus somewhat raising the production capacity curve
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(POC) — U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator Samantha Power, U.S. Ambassador to Vietnam Marc Knapper, and Vice Minister of the Ministry of National Defense (MND) Senior Lieutenant General Hoang Xuan Chien announced a new contract of up to $73 million to treat and clean soil at Bien Hoa Air Base. This program is a reflection of the United States’ enduring commitment to Vietnam as the countries mark 10 years of the U.S.-Vietnam Comprehensive Partnership. Standing on a recently remediated parcel of land at Bien Hoa Air Base, the representatives marked recent progress and announced the next
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(POC) — Department of Defense has awarded an additional 8,683,092 to previously awarded, firm-fixed-price contract FA2517-20-C-0003 for the exercise of Option Year Three from May 1, 2023, through April 30, 2024, to provide operations and maintenance support for the Ground-based Electro-optical Deep Space Surveillance System (GEODSS).
Work will be performed in Socorro, New Mexico; Diego Garcia, British Indian Ocean Territory; and Maui, Hawaii, and is
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