SOS International (SOSi) was awarded a multiple award task order contract (MATOC) by the United States Air Forces in Europe (USAFE) to provide Advisory and Assistance Services (A&AS) at locations throughout Europe and Africa. This MATOC has a maximum ceiling value of $172 million over a one year base period and four one-year option periods. SOSi expects the majority of the work to be performed in Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom.

SOSi’s Chief Executive Officer, Julian Setian, noted, “SOSi’s win on the USAFE Advisory and Assistance Services contract underscores our company’s emergence as a top tier, prime integrator in the aerospace and defense industry. It builds upon six years of successful systems engineering and intelligence analysis experience supporting the U.S. Army in Europe, while

The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) just released a top-level analysis of State Department reconstruction funding in Afghanistan. SIGAR found that State has obligated nearly $4 billion for Afghanistan reconstruction between the beginning of fiscal year 2002 and March 2013, more than two-thirds of which ($2.8 billion, or 69 percent) will go to just one company—DynCorp International.

The State Department’s reconstruction effort relies extensively on contractors. Nearly 90 percent of State’s reconstruction funding—$3.5 billion—was obligated in 55 contracts awarded to 19 recipients, the largest of which is DynCorp. Readers of this blog are probably familiar with DynCorp’s colorful history in Afghanistan, which includes instances of labor smuggling, weak performance and overpayments on a base support services contract, botched construction work on an Afghan Army garrison, and lawsuits filed by disgruntled subcontractors.