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… for Private Armies Big money is involved in the private military business. Equitable Services, a security industry … given to the sector by the September 11 attacks. "The top five executives at Science Applications International … "preplans during peacetime for the use of civilian contractors to perform selected services in wartime and other …
… CAYMAN ISLANDS: Top Iraq contractor skirts US taxes offshore Shell companies … workers compensation law, employers working with the military have immunity in most cases from such employee … to the same lengths to avoid taxes. Other top Iraq war contractors - including Bechtel, Parsons, Washington Group …
… Walter Pincus The Defense Department will pay private U.S. contractors in Iraq up to $300 million over the next three … companies -- will expand and consolidate what the U.S. military calls "information/psychological operations" in Iraq … not involve killing insurgents." Petraeus, who became the top U.S. commander in Iraq early last year, led a "surge" in …
… U.S. Contractors Convicted in 2007 Blackwater Baghdad Traffic … to sign an agreement with Washington to extend the U.S. military presence there. It also sealed the reputation of … Nisour incident but had abandoned it after Blackwater's top manager there issued an apparent death threat. According …
… prices soar, the number of new weapons that the American military can afford shrinks, even with the biggest budget in … Neither the Pentagon nor Congress nor the weapons contractors have any prescription to cure the problem. But in … "a national debate" on the costs of weapons. The Navy's top admiral, Vern Clark, echoes that view. Franklin C. …
… Says Dangerous Work Full of Risks and Rewards Private contractors in Iraq say pay can top $100,000 for a year's work. But plenty of danger is often … Speedway police captain wasn't working as a member of the military. A private company had recruited Atkins, 49, to work …
… QinetiQ Goes Kinetic: Top Rumsfeld Aide Wins Contracts From Spy Office He Set Up … office that claims to monitor terrorist threats to U.S. military bases in North America -- and was once reprimanded … exist between former officials and private intelligence contractors, said Steven Aftergood, the director of the …
… US: Military Commandos Leaving in Record Numbers Why are … operators by private security firms that are protecting contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan. James W. Crawley … of skilled commandos, known as "operators," has been a top-drawer concern for officials at the Pentagon and Special …
… aggression. As a part of all this, our FMS [Foreign Military Sales] and FMF [Foreign Military Financing] programs … at the base. Later in the month, American International Contractors , a global construction firm that specializes in … Bin Abdul Aziz Battalion, and an $82 million agreement to top Saudi construction firm Al-Latifia Trading and …
… JAMES RISEN WASHINGTON - Shoddy electrical work by private contractors on United States military bases in Iraq is widespread and dangerous, causing … by The Times.) The 2007 safety survey was ordered by the top official in Iraq for the Defense Contract Management …
… companies working under KBR and other major U.S.-funded contractors for work in Iraq. Largely hailing from … beauticians and similar blue-collar jobs for the U.S. military. Invisible and Indispensable Army of Low-Paid … supervisor from the United States. "But a lot of them are top notch." Untraceable Trail of Contract Labor TCNs are …
… CEO pay outstrips other CEOs Chief executives at top U.S. defense contractors have received a 200 percent pay hike since 2001 … outstripped the pay raises won by other executives or by military personnel. The study excluded pay of such defense …
… US: Business booming for U.S. defense contractors Peter Bauer U.S. defence contractors are riding … systems procurement and about 69 billion dollars for military research and development. Lockheed Martin, Boeing, … Lockheed Martin, the biggest U.S. defence contractor and top seller of secure computer systems, saw net profit jump 41 …
… government has been dependent on American logistics and military support in the war against Al Qaeda and the Taliban … forces that it hopes will lead this fight, the American military has relied since early last year on a fledgling … example of the Bush administration's promotion of private contractors as integral elements of war-fighting strategy. …