Defense Contractors Under Attack?
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The stage could be set for budget shifts that will hurt some defense contractors and help others.
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Whom do you turn to when the enormous number of military contract employees in Iraq creates problems for the U.S. Army as it tries to fight there?
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The Pentagon is still struggling to get a handle on the unprecedented number of contractors now helping run the nation's wars, losing millions of dollars because it is unable to monitor industry workers stationed in far-flung locations, according to a congressional report.
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Amid a rising number of criminal investigations into alleged fraud and abuse by defense contractors in Iraq, Afghanistan and Kuwait, the Defense Department and Army are assembling teams to investigate whether the contracting system should be overhauled, senior Pentagon and military officials said Tuesday.
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A provision buried deep in the defense authorization bill passed by Congress this week could release hundreds of millions of dollars now beyond the reach of victims of terrorist attacks struggling to collect damages from foreign governments. But experts say it also may undermine one of the...
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The fog of war keeps getting thicker. The Iraqi government's decision to temporarily ban the security company Blackwater USA after a fatal shooting of civilians in Baghdad reveals a growing web of rules governing weapons-bearing private contractors but few signs U.S. agencies are aggressively enforcing them.
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After years of high-stakes legal wrangling, a lawsuit stemming from the gruesome deaths of four U.S. contractors in Iraq is moving behind closed doors in an action seen as an important precedent for the booming private security industry.
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The Sept. 11 commission&#39;s campaign to create a new intelligence czar has run smack into a formidable adversary in the person of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.
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ISN SECURITY WATCH (08/10/04) - The fierce competition between aerospace giants Airbus and Boeing is heating up, as the US and EU take their complaints to the World Trade Organization (WTO), protesting against what they call unfair subsidies for the two
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If war is out of control, contractorsâ incentives may lead to errors.
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A study released Wednesday polled 465 IT and business professionals and found that while companies are putting serious effort into defending their domain name servers, firms are far from safe. And the consequences of a successful attack could be dire.
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The Defense Department has picked five companies, four of them from the Washington area, for a contract to support the Pentagon's counter-narcoterrorism activities. The government may spend as much as $15 billion through the five-year contract.
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Department of Defense considers the threats posed by hackers, pornographers, and IPods.
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Figuring out who's an ally in this complicated war on terror is tough. The Pentagon wants software that can make the call. In Danger Room.
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Will someone explain to me what in the world is going on in Iraq? Our troops are now digging around in trash heaps looking for chunks of metal they can use to improvise armor to protect their vehicles against small-arms attacks.
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Attack largely unsuccessful, but security experts warn of more to come.
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The shooting incident involving private security guards in Baghdad on Sunday revealed large gaps in the laws applying to such armed contractors.