Rumsfeld's mystery contingency operations

[donsu]

http://www.onlinejournal.com/Special_Reports/051005Stanton/051005stanton.html

ok, all of this is complicated, so 4 paragraphs will not do it justice. please read all of it yourselves


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Within that batch of 2,000 contracts are approximately 50 mentions of a "classified domestic contractor" and a "classified foreign contractor" operating at 18th & F Street, NW, Washington, DC. Tallying up the numbers, it turns out that these two contractors have received approximately $100 million for contingency operations in amounts ranging from $17,000 to $25 million (USD). The bulk of the money has been let to the classified domestic contractor (the foreign contractor is based in the United Kingdom). At least 296 actions (awards, transfer of funds) have taken place on the contract and there have been at least 17 modifications. The contract is consistently extended and will run to at least September 2006.

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The FPDS system provides the Dun & Bradstreet (D&B) number for the domestic contractor which is 790238638. Punching that into the D&B database returns this message: "contractor not disclosed, 2011 Crystal City, Suite 911, Arlington, Virginia. Plugging that information into Google, it turns out that the former American Management Systems, Inc. was located in Suite 911. CGI, "the largest information services company in the world," bought AMS and retained the not-so interesting information services portion of AMS. CGI sold off the very interesting AMS defense and intelligence unit and its people, run by Gil Guarino, in 2004 for a hefty $1billion (USD).

And the buyer? CACI International, the group that received unwelcome attention for its role in the torture scandals in Iraq that plague the company and the US government to this day. For its purchase of a piece of the "classified domestic contractor," CACI was awarded "the Hottest M&A Deal" by the Northern Virginia Technology Council in May 2004.

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Having reviewed just 50 or so entries for this contract (Dxxxxx04xxxxx), and ending up at a $100 million (USD) in value, one can only speculate on how many more of the "classified" awards are contained within the remaining 27,000 USSOCOM, DISA-NCA entries. Perhaps it runs into the hundreds of millions. And for what? Domestic operations? Interrogation and rendering? Homeland security? Intelligence gathering and assassination? It's all speculation since only Rumsfeld, Guarino and CACI's Jack London know for sure.

(If you want to learn more about the matter, go to fpds.gov and register—it's free. Use this information: Award ID=9700. IDV ID=9700. Contracting Office=H92236 and HC1047.)
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[seemunkee]

1. CACI is evil

just submitted a proposal trying to steal a contract from under them. My company has had several run ins with them and none of them have been pleasent. The DoD office that we are dealing with is located inside a CACI owned building.

This is from a Washington Post article that came out a week ago.

Contractors Were Poorly Monitored, GAO Says
Report Contends CACI Performed Jobs in Iraq Meant for Government
By Griff Witte
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, April 30, 2005; Page E01

"For example, the report by the Government Accountability Office found that CACI officials drafted the statements of work that dictated which jobs company workers would perform; at least one such statement was written on CACI letterhead. The GAO also said the contractor's employees drafted an explanation and approval for giving the company more work without competitive bidding."

The WP site isn't working right now so I can't get a link.

[TexasLawyer]

2. Very interesting!

And for what? Domestic operations? Interrogation and rendering? Homeland security? Intelligence gathering and assassination? It's all speculation since only Rumsfeld, Guarino and CACI's Jack London know for sure.


I can think of a few more uses of that kind of "classified" money: buying off the media; paying political "consultants" with access to TV or print to pimp current and future wars; establishing slush funds for anyone or anything (e.g., the RNC); etc.

These guys need some oversight.