Academi

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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 the amount of $6,808,686 were obligated at the time of the award. Army Contracting Command, Bagram, Afghanistan, AE, is the contracting activity (W91B4N-15-C-2000).

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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 of January at the request of Ukraine’s General Staff,” the source said.

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ACADEMI released a statement last month to kill the rumors about there involvement in Ukraine conflict:

ACADEMISome irresponsible bloggers and an online reporter have recently posted rumors that ACADEMI employees (operating under the name of Blackwater) are present in Ukraine. They are not and ACADEMI has no relationship with any entity named Blackwater or with the former owner of Blackwater, Erik Prince. Such unfounded statements combined with the lack of factual reporting to support them and the lack of context about the company, are nothing more than sensationalistic efforts to create hysteria and headlines in times of genuine crisis.

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