Last week brought a new development in a nearly four-year-old fraud lawsuit accusing private security firm Triple Canopy of providing security guards in Iraq who lacked basic firearms proficiency. In March 2011, former Triple Canopy employee Omar Badr filed a False Claims Act (FCA) lawsuit alleging the company billed the government for hundreds of Ugandan guards at […]
GERMANY — An Army contract for security at its bases in Germany is moving ahead after the U.S. Government Accountability Office dismissed a protest against the award. The decision essentially upholds the four-year, $334 million contract the Army awarded to Pond Security Service in October. “Naturally we’re pleased to hear the good news,” said Chad Geier, Pond’s […]
A press release from Constellis Holdings signals major news in the High Threat Security Industry. Academi, the company formerly known as Blackwater and Xe, will join Triple Canopy along with a handful of other high threat security companies under a new management structure named Constellis Holdings. “This move allows us to create a suite of […]
Triple Canopy, Inc., a global provider of mission support, security, training and advisory services, is pleased to announce that it has formed a 100 percent employee-owned company by establishing an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP). A veteran-owned and veteran-run company, more than 80 percent of Triple Canopy's workforce is made up of former military personnel. "This […]
The Eastern District of Virginia dismissed a False Claims Act complaint brought by the government and a whistleblower, finding that the government failed to adequately plead that it relied on allegedly false marksmanship tests when it paid a government contractor. U.S. ex rel. Badr v. Triple Canopy, Inc., Case No. 1:11-cv-288 (E.D. Va. June 19, […]