According to U.S. Government Accountability Office, Serco Inc., of Virginia Beach, Virginia, protest against the Department of the Army's award of the Global Logistics and Support Services (GLASS) contract to Jacobs Technology, Inc., of Fort Walton Beach, Florida, pursuant to request for proposals (RFP) No. W52P1J-11-R-0068. The solicitation sought proposals to provide a broad range […]
Army Maj. John L. Cockerham is escorted into U.S. Federal Court for a sentencing hearing after he was convicted of taking $9.6 million in bribes while serving in Iraq, in the largest such bribery case to come out of the war in Iraq.[/caption] George Lee, a Kuwait-based U.S. defense contractor who was reaping millions as […]
NSF and the USAP have been anchoring the U.S. presence in Antarctica since 1956 through its active and influential scientific research program, supporting fundamental discovery research that can only be done there and studying the Antarctic and its interactions with the rest of the planet. The program goals include: understanding the region and how its […]
The Senate recently agreed to make the Pentagon compile annual reports on contracting fraud. The provision by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) was added to a Department of Defense authorization bill. “This country has a $16 trillion national debt. It is unacceptable that the Department of Defense continues to lose vast sums of taxpayer money because […]
EOD Technology, Inc., of Lenoir, Tennessee, protests the corrective action taken by the Department of the Army under request for proposals (RFP) No. W91B4L-12-R-0189 for security services in Afghanistan. EOD argues that the Army improperly determined that EOD was nonresponsible, and permitted the awardee, Olive Group, of Dubai, United Arab Emirates, to begin performing the […]