http://www.corpwatch.org/ http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15483 <div class="text blurb">DynCorp International Inc. said it has terminated one of its top lawyers, a move that comes on the heels of the government contractor's disclosure that some of its subcontractors may have broken U.S. law in trying to speed up getting licenses and visas overseas.</div> Sat, 28 Nov 2009 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15483 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15424 <div class="text blurb">A Defense Department auditor, appearing before the Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan, testified Tuesday that DynCorp International billed the government $50 million more than the amount specified in a contract to provide dining facilities and living quarters for military personnel in Kuwait.</div> Wed, 12 Aug 2009 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15424 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15328 <div class="text blurb">A new strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan will be unveiled by President Barack Obama this week. It plans to ramp up the training of the Afghan army and police at a cost of some $2 billion a year. Private contractor DynCorp is already lining up to bid for some of the lucrative contracts. This article provides an overview of key reports assessing the training of the Afghan police, and DynCorp's role, to date.</div> Mon, 23 Mar 2009 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15328 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15057 <div class="text blurb">For the first time since the war began, the largest single Pentagon contract in Iraq is being divided among three companies, ending the monopoly held by KBR, the Houston-based corporation that has been accused of wasteful spending and mismanagement and of exploiting its political ties to Vice President Dick Cheney.</div> Sat, 24 May 2008 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=15057 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14548 <div class="text blurb">Contractors who have worked in Iraq are returning home with the same kinds of combat-related mental health problems that afflict United States military personnel, according to contractors, industry officials and mental health experts.</div> Thu, 05 Jul 2007 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14548 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14619 <div class="text blurb">On the first floor of a tan building inside Baghdad's Green Zone, the full scope of Iraq's daily carnage is condensed into a 30-minute PowerPoint presentation. The intelligence was compiled not by the U.S. military, but by a British security firm, Aegis Defence Services Ltd. The Reconstruction Operations Center is the most visible example of how intelligence collection is now among the responsibilities handled by a network of private security companies that work in the shadows of the U.S. military.</div> Sun, 01 Jul 2007 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14619 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14256 <div class="text blurb"> Five years after the fall of the Taliban, a joint report by the Pentagon and the State Department has found that the American-trained police force in Afghanistan is largely incapable of carrying out routine law enforcement work, and that managers of the $1.1 billion training program cannot say how many officers are actually on duty or where thousands of trucks and other equipment issued to police units have gone.</div> Mon, 04 Dec 2006 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=14256 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13603 <div class="text blurb">So was much of the rest of Iraq. An initial effort by American civilians to rebuild the police, slow to get started and undermanned, had become overwhelmed by corruption, political vengeance and lawlessness unleashed by the toppling of Saddam Hussein. </div> Mon, 22 May 2006 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13603 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13600 <div class="text blurb">Field training of the Iraqi police, the most critical element of the effort, was left to DynCorp International, a company based in Irving, Tex., that received $750 million in contracts. The advisers, many of them retired officers from small towns, said they arrived in Iraq and quickly found themselves caught between poorly staffed American government agencies, company officials focused on the bottom line and thousands of Iraqi officers clamoring for help.</div> Sun, 21 May 2006 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13600 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=12751 <div class="text blurb"> In the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, journalist Jeremy Scahill investigated the role of private security companies like Blackwater USA, infamous for their work in Iraq, that deployed on the streets of New Orleans. His reports were broadcast on the national radio and TV show Democracy Now! and on hundreds of sites across the internet. In response to Scahill's recent cover story in The Nation magazine "Blackwater Down," the President and CEO of DynCorp, one of the largest private security companies in the world, wrote a letter to the editor of The Nation. Dyncorp CEO Stephen J. Cannon's letter is reprinted below, followed by Scahill's response.</div> Tue, 01 Nov 2005 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=12751 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=12649 <div class="text blurb">A military contractor returning from Iraq was charged yesterday with distributing identity badges that control access to Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone to people not allowed to receive them, including an Iraqi woman he was dating.</div> Wed, 21 Sep 2005 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=12649 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=11574 <div class="text blurb">The U.S. State Department has rebuked a private security firm, Dyncorp, over the "aggressive behavior" of guards hired to protect Afghan leader Hamid Karzai.</div> Thu, 14 Oct 2004 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=11574 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=11242 <div class="text blurb">Under assault by insurgents and unable to rely on U.S. and coalition troops for intelligence or help under duress, private security firms in Iraq have begun to band together in the past 48 hours, organizing what may effectively be the largest private army in the world, with its own rescue teams and pooled, sensitive intelligence. </div> Thu, 08 Apr 2004 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=11242 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=11263 <div class="text blurb">The shootout was just one more example of the behind-the-scenes role played in Iraq by an estimated 15,000 private security agents from the United States, Britain and countries as varied as Nepal, Chile, Ukraine, Israel, South Africa and Fiji. They are employed by about 25 different firms that are playing their part in Iraq's highly dangerous postwar environment by performing tasks ranging from training the country's new police and army to protecting government leaders to providing logistics for the U.S. military. 15,000 agents patrol the violent streets of Iraq.</div> Sun, 28 Mar 2004 http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=11263 http://www.corpwatch.org/11-13-2003 <div class="text blurb">Computer Sciences Corp. was accused Wednesday of cheating thousands of computer technicians out of overtime pay in a lawsuit that could open the technology industry to the same class-action litigation that has forced millions of dollars in back wages from fast-food chains and retail outlets. </div> Thu, 13 Nov 2003 http://www.corpwatch.org/11-13-2003