(POC) — Department of Defense has awarded an additional $66,497,640 under a previously awarded contract for base operations support services at U.S. Naval Support Facility Diego Garcia.

This award option brings the total cumulative contract value to $392,988,652. Work will be performed in Diego Garcia, British Indian Ocean Territory, and is expected to be completed by November 2023.

(POC) — A global building materials manufacturer and its subsidiary pleaded guilty today to a one-count criminal information charging them with conspiring to provide material support and resources in Northern Syria from 2013 to 2014 to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) and the al-Nusrah Front (ANF), both U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organizations. Immediately following the defendants’ guilty pleas, U.S. District Judge sentenced the defendants to terms of probation and to pay financial penalties, including criminal fines and forfeiture, totaling $777.78 million.

(POC) — Department of Defense has awarded a $26,396,962 firm-fixed-price contract to renovate Building 2814 at Camp Hansen.

Work will be performed in Okinawa, Japan, with an estimated completion date of June 14, 2025.

Department of Defense has awarded an $8,857,211 contract for upgrading existing Dell Technologies servers providing Virtual Machine Ware Hyper-Converged Infrastructure. Bids were solicited via the internet, with four received.

Work will be performed in Camp Humphreys, South Korea, with an estimated completion date of Jan. 5, 2023.

The United States Government employs thousands of individual private and defense contractors every year to work overseas. The Department of Defense, State Department, USAID, and various military branches employ these companies to contract with and employ thousands of people as construction, security personnel, IT specialists, logistics, administrators, food service, doctors, accountants, etc.

Department of Defense has been awarded an additional $68,398,134 to previously awarded (FA4890-17-C-0005) for Air Forces Central War Reserve Materiel (WRM) support.

Total cumulative face value of the contract is $476,162,882. Work will be performed at Shaw Air Force Base, South Carolina, Kuwait, Sultanate of Oman, Qatar, and United Arab Emirates, and is expected to be completed Sept. 30, 2023.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on Monday granting Russian citizenship to former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden.

Driving the news: Snowden fled the United States and was given asylum in Russia after revealing classified documents about the U.S. government's mass surveillance program in 2013.

United States Forces Korea (USFK) is a sub-unified command of the United States Pacific Command (USPACOM). USFK is the joint headquarters through which U.S. combat forces would be sent to South Korea/US (ROK/U.S.) Combined Forces Command’s (CFC) fighting components – are the combined ground, air, naval, marine, and special operations forces component commands.

Department of Defense has awarded an estimated $1,061,000,000 multiple award contract for the proposal of new husbanding service provider contractors to an existing 2020 global multiple award contract (GMAC) for the remaining three years within the initial GMAC. The existing GMAC included a five-year base ordering period with one five-year option with individual requirements performed under task orders when specific dates and locations are identified.

Hundreds of Filipino workers are marooned at a U.S. military base on an island in the Indian Ocean because of a dispute between their employer, a major American contractor, and the Philippine government over their wages, according to employees and Philippine officials.

The Taliban has freed Mark Frerichs, an American engineer in exchange for an Afghan tribal leader linked to the group the US had held on drugs charges since 2005.

Frerichs is an engineer and U.S. Navy veteran from Lombard, Illinois, who worked in Afghanistan for a decade on development projects. He was kidnapped in February 2020.

Department of Defense has awarded a $10,589,561 indefinite-delivery / indefinite-quantity contract for English language training in support of the Air Force Security Assistance Training Squadron. Work will be performed in the United Arab Emirates and is expected to be completed by Sept. 20, 2025.  This contract involves 100% Foreign Military Sales (FMS) to the United Arab Emirates.

On Friday, the U.S. government posted a $40,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of the Malaysian defense contractor nicknamed "Fat Leonard," who disappeared weeks before being sentenced for one of the largest bribery scandals in the nation's defense contracting history.

Francis pleaded guilty in 2015 to offering prostitution services, luxury hotels, cigars, gourmet meals, and more than $500,000 in