Wednesday, March 17, 2010 - Denied the chance to bid on a lucrative security contract to train Afghanistan’s new police force, DynCorp International managed to convince the Government Accountability Office to halt the company’s rival—Xe (formerly Blackwater)—from moving forward with its no-bid work.
Xe was given the $1 billion job of training new Afghan police when oversight of the program was switched from the State Department to the U.S. Army. DynCorp, which already was training some police under its deal with the State Department, complained when it was shut out of the bidding for the contract that went to Xe, which has done extensive work for the Department of Defense. More >>>
