FORCE FOR HIRE — Blackwater. The name has not been used officially for years, but it still defines how many people think about private military contracting.
DOD has awarded an additional $8,661,495 to previously awarded contract N62742-16-D-3600. This modification provides for the exercise of Option 6 for base operating support services at military and civilian installations in the Republic of Singapore. This award brings the total cumulative face value of the contract to $68,575,430. Work will be performed in the Republic […]
Blackwater successor Academi asked a Virginia federal judge on Thursday to toss a False Claims Act suit accusing it of falsifying firearms qualifications for U.S. Department of State guards in Afghanistan, arguing that the claims don’t hold up under the U.S. Supreme Court‘s recent Escobar decision. In a reply in support of its motion for […]
According to the Departement of Defense (D0D) — Academi Training Center LLC, Moyock, North Carolina, was awarded an $8,330,202 incrementally funded contract with options for facility service support and private security contract/armed security in Afghanistan. The estimated completion date is May 14, 2018. One bid was solicited with one received. Fiscal 2015 operations and maintenance (Army) funds in […]
MOSCOW — The US private military company Academi (formerly known as Blackwater) has confirmed its readiness to start training a Ukrainian battalion for street fighting, a military-diplomatic source told TASS on Tuesday. “The private military company Academi has confirmed to the Kiev authorities its readiness to start training an experimental battalion of 550 men as […]