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A new bill proposed in Congress would make it so veterans dealing will illnesses related to military burn pit exposure would no longer be turned away by the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Representatives Gus Bilirakis (R-FL) and Raul Ruiz, M.D. (D-CA) are backing the legislation that would provide those veterans with needed health care.
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According to the Department of Defense (DoD), a company out of Houston, Texas, has been awarded a maximum $49,500,000 firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity contract for hydrant fueling automation maintenance. This was a competitive acquisition with two responses received.
Locations of performance are throughout the U.S., Japan, Wake Island, Republic of Korea, Guam, Diego Garcia, Portugal, Crete, Spain, Germany, Italy, Turkey and United Kingdom, with May 12, 2022, ordering period end date.
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KBRwyle Powers Military Bases with Green Energy
KBRwyle powers military bases throughout the Middle East with solar and wind lights that protect the environment and reduce the cost of fuel and services parts.
"Based on our years of experience working in harsh environments, we were looking for ways to provide exterior lighting without the fuel and maintenance burdens of gasoline or diesel powered light sets," said Mike Flanagan, KBRwyle Vice President for the LOGCAP IV team.
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KBR, Inc. announced on Tuesday that it has completed the acquisition of Wyle, Inc. for $570 million. Wyle will now operate under the new company brand "KBRwyle" that preserves the Wyle name and logo, acknowledges the value of KBR's new ownership and honors the legacies of both companies.
"Expanding our government services capabilities and service offerings into more profitable and complementary market segments is a key part of KBR's growth strategy," said Stuart Bradie, President and CEO of KBR, Inc.
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One of the nation’s largest government contractors requires employees seeking to report fraud to sign internal confidentiality statements barring them from speaking to anyone about their allegations, including government investigators and prosecutors, according to a complaint filed Wednesday and corporate documents obtained by www.WashingtonPost.com
Attorneys for a whistleblower suing Halliburton Co. And its former subsidiary, Kellogg Brown & Root, said the statements violate the federal False Claims Act and other laws designed to shield whistleblowers.
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In July 3, 2013 Department of State (DOS) awarded PAE a contract for $403 million to provide life support services at U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq. The contract is to provide life support services including food procurement, preparation and serving, fuel procurement and delivery, postal support services, solid waste management, property acrap, destruction and disposals; recreation support services; airfield and structural fire protection, warehouse operations support, airfield management and operations support, transportation services, RSO supplemental staffing support for vetting, badging and security systems maintenance, and program management.
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The government has filed a complaint against Kellogg, Brown & Root Services Inc. (KBR) and Kuwaiti companies La Nouvelle General Trading & Contracting Co. (La Nouvelle) and First Kuwaiti Trading Co. (First Kuwaiti) for submitting false claims in connection with KBR’s contract with the Army to provide logistical support in Iraq, the Department of Justice announced. KBR is an engineering, construction and services firm headquartered in Houston, Texas. Kuwait-based La Nouvelle and First Kuwaiti provided transportation, maintenance and other services in support of KBR’s contract with the Army.
“We depend on companies like KBR and its subcontractors to provide valuable services to our military,” said Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department’s Civil Division Stuart F. Delery. “We will ensure that contractors do not engage in corrupt practices at the expense of our troops abroad, while profiting at the expense of taxpayers at home.”
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PITTSBURGH — A federal appeals court revived a lawsuit Thursday against a military contractor in the death of a Pittsburgh-area soldier who was electrocuted in his barracks shower at an Army base in Iraq.
Staff Sgt. Ryan Maseth died in 2008 when an improperly grounded water pump electrified his shower water. In the lawsuit, Maseth's parents say Houston-based contractor Kellogg Brown & Root Services Inc. was legally responsible for the shoddy electrical work that was common in Iraqi-built structures taken over by the U.S. military. KBR disputes that claim.
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KBR has a long history of contingency construction and support operations for the Department of Defense and other Federal Agencies throughout the world.
The U.S. Navy recently awarded KBR a contract under the Navy’s Global Contingency Construction Multiple Award Contract. This contract, awarded to KBR and three other firms, is valued at up to $800 million over five years and provides immediate response for civilian construction contract capability in the event of natural disasters, humanitarian assistance, conflict or projects with similar characteristics.
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KBR Inc. invoked federal laws shielding contractors during wartime in an effort to avoid a Texas trial over injuries claimed by troops who were exposed to toxic chemicals while guarding a work site in Iraq.
KBR argued today before a U.S. Court of Appeals panel in El Paso, Texas, that contractor-on-the-battlefield statutes act as a firewall to litigation. Without that protection, KBR and other contractors might abandon military support work altogether, the company has said.
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Defense contractor KBR headquartered in Houston, Texas must face claims that its employees took kickbacks while shipping military equipment to Iraq and Afghanistan. Under a 2001 logistics (LOGCAP) agreement, the U.S. Army had given KBR, a former Halliburton subsidiary previously known as Kellogg, Brown and Root, discrete tasks to fulfill, which it could do on its own or by hiring subcontractors.
KBR hired two subcontractors, EGL and Panalpina, to carry out its task of transporting military equipment and supplies to Iraq, Afghanistan and Kuwait between 2002 and 2006. The government later accused KBR employees of accepting kickbacks from EGL and Panalpina to “obtain favorable treatment on subcontracts with KBR, such as overlooking service failures and continuing to award new subcontracts despite such failures" they said.
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Department of Defense awards Kellogg, Brown & Root Services Inc. (KBR) for construction at Military Deveselu Air Base in Romania. The United States and Romania jointly selected the Deveselu Air Base near Caracal, Romania, to host a U.S. Ballistic Missile Defense System which employs the SM-3 interceptor (also referred to as the “Aegis Ashore System”). The deployment to Romania is anticipated to occur in the 2015 timeframe as part of the second phase of the European Phased Adaptive Approach (EPAA) – the U.S. national contribution to a NATO missile defense architecture.
KBR is the incumbent on the existing USC contract and has operated continuously for this client in the Balkans since 1995. Currently, KBR is providing services in Kosovo, Romania and Germany under the USC Contract. KBR has been instrumental in the military’s success in the region from the DoD’s initial deployment on a fast-paced contingency mission to their current sustainment operations.
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STUTTGART, Germany — Hundreds of workers angry over mass layoff plans are on strike and staging daily protests outside Camp Lemonnier, the strategically placed U.S. military base in Djibouti on the Horn of Africa, officials said Wednesday.
In June, the military entered into a $35 million contract with base support services provider KBR, which took over responsibility for operations from a previous contractor. KBR planned to cut its base operation support staff from 1,000 to 600 workers, who conduct a range of activities such as janitorial, laundry and food service work, according to a U.S. Navy spokesman, who said the previous contract cost $80 million per year. That plan prompted the remaining 600 workers to strike.
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Department of Defense (DoD) awarded Ch2M Hill, Environmental Chemical Corporation (ECC), Kellogg, Brown, and Root (KBR), and URS Group a worldwide construction task order worth $800M. The construction and related engineering services would respond to natural disasters, humanitarian assistance and conflict areas. DoD also stated, the contractor in support of the construction effort, may be required to provide initial base operating support services, which will be incidental to construction efforts.
DoD announcement:
CH2M Hill Constructors, Englewood, Colo., Environmental Chemical Corp., Burlingame, Calif., Kellogg Brown and Root Services Inc., Arlington, Va. and URS Group Inc., Morrisville, N.C., are each being awarded an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, multiple award contract with provisions to issue cost-plus-award-fee or firm-fixed-price task orders for global contingency construction projects worldwide. The maximum dollar value including the base period and four option years for all four contracts combined is $800,000,000.
Approximately 60 percent capacity would be used for natural disasters and 40 percent would be used for miscellaneous work both inside and outside of the continental United States.
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The outcome of a court battle between the Army and KBR over the final stages of LOGCAP III, the largest government services contract in U.S. history, could affect tens of thousands of federal contracts while creating “enormous uncertainty” for vendors and the government alike, according to the Justice Department.
The warning, delivered in the footnote of a recent U.S. Court of Federal Claims pleading, marks the latest development in a dispute to decide how to close out the 12-year-old, $38 billion military logistics contract supporting military operations in Iraq.
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KBR, Inc. and CH2M Hill have won a $17.9 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to operate and maintain an undisclosed number of power plants in Qatar.
The one-year task order has two option years and was awarded through the Air Force Contract Augmentation program, KBR said Today.
The scope of work includes provision of all transportation, management, labor and selected equipment as necessary to provide electrical power production and distribution to various base facilities on Al Udeid Air Base and the airfield lighting system, as well as training of Air Force personnel on the aircraft arresting systems installed on the airfield.
“This award marks the 40th task order award to our joint venture under AFCAP and shows the continued trust and confidence our client places in us to support their mission critical, overseas operations,” said Andy Summers, Group President, KBR Infrastructure, Government and Power. “I am pleased that KBR has been selected and look forward to building on our long-standing relationship as we work toward successful completion of this project.”
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The recipient of the largest government services contract in U.S. history has told military officials it will take another 13 years and half a billion dollars to finish off its work stemming from the Iraq war. This assessment from KBR Inc., which won the $38 billion deal from the U.S. Army way back in 2001, is at the heart of a legal battle between the two sides.
KBR Inc. was responsible for aiding virtually all American military support operations as part of the Logistics Civil Augmentation Program - LOGCAP III in Iraq. With the conflict over and the pullout of combat units, the Pentagon sought to alter the terms of payment for the remainder of the contract.
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Kellogg, Brown, and Root today announced it has been awarded a task order by the U.S. Army Rock Island Contracting Command under its current Logistics Civil Augmentation Program (LOGCAP) IV contract.
KBR will execute the LOGCAP IV Bahrain combat service support requirements for U.S. forces in Sheik Isa Airbase and Riffa Army support and Raydome. The period of performance is one base year, plus four option years and is valued at $53.5 million. This award is KBR's fifth task order under the LOGCAP IV contract.
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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 effects from exposure to the contractors’ pits, where items including medical waste, paints and pesticides are burned in war zones.
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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 persons and organizations that are determined to be performing missions or functions in support of the Chief of Mission, including: COM personnel, selected civilian agencies, military units, and authorized contractors who directly support the COM.
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Kellogg, Brown, and Root (KBR) announced today that it has entered into a contract with the Abu Dhabi Airports Company (ADAC) to provide construction management services for part of its expansion program at Abu Dhabi International Airport. Abu Dhabi International Airport is one of the fastest growing hubs in the world, with a growth rate of 19.7% over the past five years.
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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 ecosystems depend on the polar environment; understanding its effects on (and responses to) global processes such as climate, and using the region as a platform for fundamental research in every scientific discipline. Antarctica's remoteness and extreme climate make it a unique and natural laboratory environment.
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Kellogg, Brown, and Root - KBR has been active on the African continent for nearly 60 years and continues to take on complex projects with its customers and partner nations. KBR's major African office is located in Johannesburg, South Africa, and plays a major role in the construction of ammonia plants in Egypt, a GTL facility in Nigeria and two more LNG liquefaction trains at Bonny Island, which will be the largest capacity LNG trains in the world.
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Houston, Texas — November 15, 2012 — Kellogg, Brown, and Root announced today that the United States has voluntarily dismissed its False Claims Act case it filed against the company.
On April 1, 2010, the United States sued KBR for damages claiming that KBR had violated the False Claims Act by billing under LOGCAP III, which is KBR’s logistics support contract with the Army. These costs were associated with armed private security contractors in Iraq.
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The United States has filed a civil complaint against Kellogg, Brown & Root Services Inc. (KBR) and First Kuwaiti Trading Company for submitting inflated claims for the delivery and installation of trailers to house troops in Iraq, the Justice Department announced today. KBR is headquartered in Houston. First Kuwaiti, a KBR subcontractor, is based in Kuwait.
KBR is the Army’s primary contractor for logistical support in Iraq. On Dec. 14, 2001, t he Army awarded KBR the LOGCAP III contract, the third generation of contracts under the Army’s Logistics Civil Augmentation Program (LOGCAP) since the program’s inception in the 1980s. LOGCAP III required KBR to provide logistical support in the military theater whenever and wherever it was needed. Support included services such as transportation, dining services, facilities management, maintenance and living accommodations for United States and coalition forces. LOGCAP III was originally awarded to Brown and Root Services, a division of KBR. The United States has paid KBR tens of billions of dollars for logistical support services since awarding the contract.
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