CONTRACTOR SUPPORT OF U.S. OPERATIONS IN THE USCENTCOM AREA OF RESPONSIBILITY TO INCLUDE IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN BACKGROUND: This report updates DoD contractor personnel numbers in theater and outlines DoD efforts to improve management of contractors accompanying U.S. forces. It covers DoD contractor personnel deployed in Afghanistan (Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF); Iraq; and, the U.S. Central […]
The Iraqi police project is the largest law-enforcement training mission the U.S. has ever conducted, with more than 800 private contractors helping to train more than 60% of the police. This being the last major non-military project of the war of choice the U.S. launched 10 years ago: an ambitious, expensive post-withdrawal effort to strengthen […]
A judge dealt a severe blow Friday to a long-running torture lawsuit filed against military contractor CACI International Inc. by four Iraqis who say they suffered abuse at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison. At a hearing in U.S. District Court, Judge Gerald Bruce Lee tossed out claims that CACI conspired to torture the four men who […]
Halliburton Co. and KBR Inc. are entitled to the same legal protection as U.S. armed forces when serving as military contractors, a judge ruled, dismissing claims over so-called burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan. U.S. District Judge Roger Titus threw out 57 consolidated lawsuits against the companies brought mainly by military personnel who claim they suffered damaging health […]
The State Department announced that it intends to solicit replacement services that are currently being provided by Kellogg, Brown and Root (KBR) under the LOGCAP Program and services provided by DLA. The replacement services will be called Baghdad Life Support Services or BLISS for short. The selected contractor will be required to provide life support services to […]