DRS Technologies’ technical services subsidiary has won a $6.3 million time and materials contract with the U.S. Army Contracting Command, the Pentagon has announced. The firm will support the installation of information technology infrastructure for command and control capabilities. Support will include engineering services. The Pentagon said contract work will take place in Afghanistan, Kuwait, Qatar, Israel, Korea, [...]
KBR has announced today it has been selected by the UK’s Foreign and Commonwealth Office to provide life support, vehicle maintenance and healthcare services across Baghdad, Basra and Erbil in Iraq, and Kabul and Lashkar Gah in Afghanistan. The three-year contract requires KBR to provide such services as medical support, fleet management of armoured and [...]
For the last nine years, CH2M Hill employees have donated more than $1 million in total to the Water for People under the firm’s annual Workplace Giving Campaign. During this year’s month-long campaign alone, employees raised $223,000. The firm first hosted its Workplace Giving Campaign in 2003, raising $10,000. Employees in offices around the world, [...]
Afghan President Hamad Karzai has issued a stern decree to private security contractors, demanding that the firms cease operations in the country within four months. NATO, which relies on private contractors to secure convoys and bases, is expected to resist the move. According to Karzai’s order, contractors must disband or join the Afghan police. International [...]
Just as the Pentagon feared that the money to fund troops was about to run out, the House Appropriations Committee passed a bill yesterday that allocated almost $59 billion towards funding for war efforts in Afghanistan and other programs. The House voted 308-114 on the legislation, which dedicates nearly $37 billion to the additional 30,000 [...]
Gen. David Petraeus could be successful in Afghanistan if he followed a strategy similar to the one used in Iraq, according to Center for a New American Security President John A. Nagl. In a recent column in Wall Street Journal, Nagl wrote how “a war not going well is not yet lost,” and Petraeus could [...]
President Obama has named David Petreaus as Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s replacement as Commander of U.S. Forces in Afghanistan. After McChrystal’s position was compromised due to a controversial article in Rolling Stone, President Obama held a private meeting with the general and gave his final verdict. Central Command Chief Gen. David Petraeus will replace McChrystal as [...]
