In July 3, 2013 Department of State (DOS) awarded PAE a contract for $403 million to provide life support services at U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq. The contract is to provide life support services including food procurement, preparation and serving, fuel procurement and delivery, postal support services, solid waste management, property acrap, destruction and disposals; recreation support services; airfield and structural fire protection, warehouse operations support, airfield management and operations support, transportation services, RSO supplemental staffing support for vetting, badging and security systems maintenance, and program management.
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Three G4S guards who joked about an asylum seeker on Manus Island swallowing a pair of nail clippers are no longer working for the company, which was hired to run the detention center. Darren Powell, Jason Drain and Paul Clear ridiculed an asylum seeker who swallowed the nail clippers on Christmas Day in a series of Facebook posts.
“Merry Christmas all. One of these jokers just swallowed a pair of nail clippers. RALMFAO. A Christmas I shall not easily forget,” Powell posted in his publicly accessible profile. RALMFAO stands for “rolling around laughing my freaking ass off”.
A year ago, "sequestration" was an ominous word in defense circles as the industry braced for what promised to be drastic across-the-board cuts in federal spending. But with this week's passage of the 2014 omnibus spending bill, everything looks -- well, everything looks pretty much the same as usual. That might not sound like news, but for an industry expecting to absorb a major blow as the federal cash spigot tightened, maintaining the status quo is actually a win. It spells a much more promising year for the defense industry than many would have imagined just a few months ago.