Pentagon probes &#36;6 billion in contracts
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Federal investigators are examining allegations of criminal misconduct related to $6 billion worth of contracts for equipment and services needed in Iraq and Afghanistan, a senior Pentagon official said Thursday.
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Lockheed Martin Corp., the top US defense contractor, won a US Navy contract worth as much as $3.3 billion to develop and build a group of satellites to provide communications for ground troops.
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Study shows defense agencies accounted for three-quarters of the $20 billion in federal IT contracts awarded last quarter.
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Lockheed Martin Corp.   has received two U.S. Air Force contracts totaling &#36;716 million to continue work on its F/A-22 Raptor fighter jet, designed to be the world's most capable, amid reports the &#36;72 billion program may be scaled back sharply, the company said Friday.
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In a largely invisible cost of the war in Iraq, nearly 800 civilians working under contract to the Pentagon have been killed and more than 3,300 hurt doing jobs normally handled by the U.S. military
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The Pentagon said on Tuesday it awarded more than $2.6 billion worth of contracts to BAE Systems Plc, Force Protection Inc and a Navistar International Corp unit to build another 3,126 mine-resistant vehicles for U.S. soldiers.
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The German government is seeking nearly &#36;6 billion in compensation from the consortium running a much-delayed project to collect truck tolls using satellite technology, the country's transport minister said Thursday.
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The U.S. Agency for International Development, seeking to update and consolidate its technology purchasing, awarded contracts to four teams of companies that will compete for up to $300 million in work over the next five years.
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The U.S. Department of Homeland   Security said on Wednesday it awarded $1.35 billion in   contracts to three companies to develop a system to screen for   radioactive matter that might be hidden in cargo.
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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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THE INVESTIGATION: The FBI is looking into whether a subsidiary of Halliburton Co. improperly received lucrative federal government contracts for work in Iraq without competitive bidding.
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Rising violence and associated security costs have prompted a U.S. company to pull out of a &#36;325 million contract to rebuild transportation infrastructure in Iraq, a military spokesman said on Wednesday.
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The Army has agreed to a Pentagon investigation into claims by a top contracting official that a Halliburton subsidiary unfairly won no-bid contracts worth billions of dollars for work in Iraq and the Balkans, according to Army documents obtained Sunday.
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation is investigating whether the Army&#39;s handling of a large Iraq contract with the Halliburton Company violated procurement rules, according to lawyers for an
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The Pentagon is investigating the contracts as part of a broader investigation into influence-peddling involving a former Air Force official and the Boeing Company.
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The U.S. Army plans within months to break up Halliburton Co.'s contract to provide support services for U.S. troops in Iraq -- valued at up to &#36;13 billion -- and open the work to competitive bids, the Wall Street Journal said on Tuesday, citing an internal Army memorandum.
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By Timothy R. Gaffney, Dayton Daily News, Ohio  Sep. 14--DAYTON -- Last week's $628 million contract to Computer Sciences  Corp. is just part of the huge database modernization effort at  Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, senior managers said Wednesday.