Dyncorp

DynCorp Does Due Diligence

David Isenberg | Posted 05.11.2012

Read More: Private Military Security Contractors, Labor Trafficking, Subcontractor, Dyncorp, Supply Chain, Contracting Policies, Business News

Dyncorp's new Supply Chain organization, stood up last year, has introduced several tools that are updated regularly to evaluate subcontractors on an ongoing basis.

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0 + 1 + 0 + 0 + 0 = DynCorp

David Isenberg | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Private Military Security Contractors, Iraq, State Department, Dyncorp, Dyncorp Government Contracts, Business News

if an actual person working for DynCorp, or any other contractor, received ratings like this on their performance assessment the door would be hitting them in the back as they left the office. Yet DynCorp still gets government contracts.

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The State Department Tells Us How They Really Felt: Part 2

David Isenberg | Posted 04.22.2012

Read More: State Department, Private Security Contractors, Dyncorp, Business News

Today we look at Dyncorp's work in Pakistan during the November 25, 2009 to July 7, 2010 time period. There is good and bad news for Dyncorp.

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The DynCorp "See No Evil" Monkey

David Isenberg | Posted 04.11.2012

Read More: Sex Trafficking, Private Military Security Contractors, Bosnia, Dyncorp, The Whistleblower, Private Contractors, Business News

The issue is not DynCorp; trafficking in and exploitation of people, whether for labor or sexual services, is the problem.

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To Super Committee: Pentagon Corruption in the Millions, Time to Cut Defense Contracting

Michael Shank | Posted 12.05.2011

With $3.7 trillion already spent by the US on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, it is painfully apparent that this money is not being spent wisely; in some cases, it is simply being stolen.

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The War Industry: Bad Job Creators, Bad Bosses, Bad Stewards of Tax Dollars

Robert Greenwald and Derrick Crowe | Posted 11.13.2011

Read More: Aerospace Industries Association, Contractors, Brave New Foundation, L-3 Communications, Lockheed Martin, Dyncorp, Project on Government Oversight, War Profiteers, Jobs, Pogo, Misconduct, War Profiteering, Labor, Military, Unemployment, War Costs, Itt, Secont to None, Business News

As budget cuts come to the fore, military contractors will undoubtedly try to obscure the fact that every $1 billion of military spending costs anywhere between 3,200 and 11,700 jobs or more when compared to other ways of spending the money.

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O'Keefe vs. NPR: Round One Goes to the Kid

Brian Palmer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Andrew Breitbart, Kbr, Abbie Boudreau, Npr, Acorn, James O'keefe, Vivian Schiller, Dyncorp, Project-on-Government-Oversight, Ron Schiller, Juan Williams, Tucker Carlson, Media News

A video filmed by right-wing activists that apparently shows NPR's chief fundraiser disparaging conservatives was just the latest in a series of dishonestly edited 'stings' by muckraker James O'Keefe.

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Ooh, Aah: PMC Feeling Good

David Isenberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sex Trafficking, Private Military Contractor, Bosnia, Peacekeeping, Accountability, Dyncorp, Business News

Whoa-oa-oa! I feel good, I knew that I would, now I feel good, I knew that I would, now So good, so good, I got you - I Feel Good, James Brown Mov...

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Familiar Recipe Cooking Once Again

Howard Steven Friedman | Posted 05.25.2011

We've tasted this recipe before. A crisis is created. Panic is fomented by politicians, pundits, media, business and others. "Something must be don...

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PMSC Challenges in Kosovo

David Isenberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Police Training, Kosovo, U.N., Private-Military-Security-Contractors, Dyncorp, Business News

One of the tasks the U.S. government uses private military contractors for is overseas law enforcement. No, they are not walking a beat in another country. But they are used to demonstrate the government's commitment to international operations.

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Private Contractors In Afghanistan Behaving Badly

AP | RICHARD LARDNER | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Afghanistan, Private Contractors, Private Contractors Afghanistan, Dyncorp, Triple Canopy, Blackwater, Xe, World News

WASHINGTON — At two in the morning on Sept. 9, 2005, five DynCorp International security guards assigned to Afghan President Hamid Karzai's prot...

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One Small Step for Transparency, One Giant Step for the U.S. State Department

David Isenberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Armorgroup-Kabul-Embassy, Blackwater, State Department, Dyncorp, Private Security Contractors, Business News

In the past I have been critical of both private security contractors and the government for not being more transparent about the details of the contr...

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WikiLeaks Reveals That Military Contractors Have Not Lost Their Taste For Child Prostitutes

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: War in Afghanistan, Eat the Press, Politics News, Military Contractors, Prostitution, Private Security Contractors, Dyncorp, Military Contractors Afghanistan, Media News, Wikileaks, Afghanistan War, Politics News

Anything interesting to be had at the intersection of the WikiLeaks cache of diplomatic cables and those military contractors that cart off many milli...

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It's Déjà Vu for DynCorp All Over Again

David Isenberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: WikiLeaks Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Private Security Contractors, Dyncorp, .Sex, Business News

For an example of how just one transgression can lead to endless bad publicity consider the movie titled The Whistleblower that was released earlier ...

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Profit-Chasing Guns-for-Hire Are Killing Us in Iraq and Afghanistan

Robert Greenwald | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wackenhut, Brave New Foundation, Security Contractors, Private Contractors, Afghanistan, Dyncorp, Wikileaks, Robert Greenwald, Afghanistan War, Iraq War, Mercenaries, Blackwater, Caci, Brave New Films, Iraq for Sale, Rethink Afghanistan, Iraq, Xe, World News

The use of private contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan makes a few people very, very rich, but it's making the rest of us -- Americans and local civilians alike -- much less safe.

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Blackwater And Private Security Firms Just Can't Be Disqualified From Winning Lucrative Government Contracts, No Matter What They Do

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Politics News, Prostitution, Blackwater, Iraq War Contractors, Private Security Contractors, Iraq War, Warwire, State-Department-Contracts, Dyncorp, Iraq, Iraq Contractors, Eat the Press, Politics News

Spencer Ackerman has been doing some stellar reporting on the who's who among the private security contractors that have gotten a share of the State Department's $10 billion Worldwide Protective Services contract.

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PMC and Wikileaks

David Isenberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Private Military Security Contractors, WikiLeaks Afghanistan, Blackwater, Dyncorp, Business News

In all the ritualistic handwringing, gnashing of teeth, and wailing about the release of the Wikileaks documents, there has been a curious lack of discussion of the role of private military and security contractors.

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Private Security Contractors in Iraq: Where are we going?"

David Isenberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gao Report, Iraq, Commission on Wartime Contracting, Dyncorp, Private Security Contractors, Business News

I previously highlighted some notable excerpts from the first day of a recent two day set of hearings held by the Commission on Wartime Contracting in...

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Blackwater, DynCorp Changes Coming

The Nation | Jeremy Scahill | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mercenaries, Dyncorp, Blackwater, Xe, Mercenary, Afghanistan, Iraq, Military Contractors, World News

Blackwater and DynCorp, the two leading mercenary firms servicing the US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have both undertaken steps toward significant st...

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DynCorp Audit Finds Poor Controls On Millions Of Dollars In Afghan Police Program

The Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Christine Spolar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pentagon, Defense Contract Audit Agency, US Military, Afghanistan, Afghan, Dyncorp, US, Dyncorp Audit, Cost, Afghan National Police, Spending, Defense Contractors, Police Training, Department of Defence, Politics News

The private contractor that trains the Afghan police force, a U.S. military program long criticized for wasting money, has failed to document millions...

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Afghan Police Training Delayed: DynCorp Contract Extended As Pentagon Plans For Re-Bid

Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pentagon, Afghan Army, Congress, Department of Defense, US Military, Afghanistan, Dyncorp, Obama, Afghan War, White House, State Department, Defense Contractors, Claire McCaskill, Afghan Police, DynCorp Contract, Video, Politics News

By Christine SpolarHuffington Post Investigative Fund A troubled multi-billion contract that has failed to create a reliable national police force in...

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AFRICA: The Mother of All PMC

David Isenberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Private Military Contractor, Africom, State Department, Dyncorp, Africa, Business News

With all the attention being paid to private military and security contractors working in Iraq and Afghanistan it is easy to forget they operate in ot...

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To Do the Impossible Job

David Isenberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Private Military Contractor, Afghanistan, Government Accountability Office, Dyncorp, Business News

This is about being able to write a realistic job goal. If the U.S. government can't do that then why expect a contractor to pull its fat out of the fire?

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DynCorp Wins Contract Dispute Over Afghan Police Training

Huffington Post Investigative Fund | Christine Spolar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Army, Dyncorp, Defense Contractors, Gao, Afghanistan, Afghanistan Training, Afghanistan Police, Government Accountability Office, World News

Re-tooling the Afghan national police as a counterinsurgency force is a critical part of the military mission in Afghanistan. Now that effort will be ...

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Best of Luck to You, Ms. Burke

David Isenberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Buyout, Dyncorp, Private-Military-Security-Contractors, Public Relations, Business News

On May 11 it was announced that DynCorp International has appointed Ashley Vanarsdall Burke as Senior Director, Media Communications.

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