About Academi

Academi previously known as Xe Services LLC, Blackwater USA and Blackwater Worldwide—is a private military company founded in 1997 by Erik Prince and Al Clark. Academi is currently the largest of the U.S. State Department's three private security contractors. Academi provided diplomatic security services in Iraq to the United States federal government on a contractual basis. Academi also has a research and development wing that was responsible for developing the Grizzly APC along with other military technology. The company'seadquarters is located in Arlington County, Virginia.

Tote Services Inc., Moorestown, N.J., is being awarded a $6,938,148 modification under a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract (N0003-12-C-3131) to exercise a one-year option period for the operation and maintenance of the USNS VADM K.R. Wheeler and the USNS Fast Tempo. These ships support the deployed military forces worldwide. Work will be performed worldwide and is expected to be completed Sept. 30, 2014. Transportation working capital funds in the amount of $6,938,148 are being obligated at the time of award and will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. The Military Sealift Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity (N00033-12-C-3131).

About Tote Services 

Tote Headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey wons and oversees a portfolio of independently managed companies organized in four lines of businesses: Maritime, Services, Shipholdings and Logistics. Tote is part of the Saltchuk family owned private investment company located in Seattle, Washington.