According to the Department of Defense (DoD), 5 major contractors are each being awarded an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, multiple award contract with the capability to issue cost-plus-award-fee and firm-fixed-price task orders for the purchase of short-term facility support services with incidental construction in support of natural disasters, humanitarian efforts, the full range of military actions, and incumbent breaks […]
Current restrictions on U.S. troop levels in Afghanistan and a heavy reliance on civilian contractors are eroding the skills and cohesion of units deployed to the country, according to information from the Army given to the House Armed Services Committee and provided to The Washington Post. According to an Army document, the use of civilian […]
BY HANNAH ALLAM — January 15 was a relatively quiet day for Baghdad, the bomb-battered capital where Waiel El-Maadawy, an Army veteran and former Florida sheriff’s deputy, had spent years as a contractor for the U.S.-led effort to train Iraqi security forces. El-Maadawy was feeling relieved. He’d just hired an Iraqi he knew, a man nicknamed […]
The Department of Defense (DOD) estimates that Congress has appropriated $1.6 trillion for war related operational costs of the DOD since the terror attacks of September 11, 2001. When combined with an estimated $123.2 billion in related State Department and Foreign Operations appropriations, the DOD, Department of State (DOS), and U.S. Agency for International Development […]
A former DynCorp employee urged the full Fifth Circuit to reconsider a panel’s decision to reject class action allegations that the company cheated him and others of overtime pay and benefits earned on a Kuwaiti logistics contract for the U.S. Army, arguing the provision to resolve disputes in Kuwait should be void. The petition from […]