Parsons Inc ( Contractor ) - Think it's the same contractor in both of these gov't jobs?

[cyberpj]

For the sake of the folks near the Indiana VX processing plant I hope not (based on the incompetency of the Parsons Inc. in Iraq...)


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Army considers nerve agent options after DuPont exit
By RICK CALLAHAN, Associated Press
Posted Friday, February 2, 2007 at 10:24 am
INDIANAPOLIS —

The Army said it’s “back to square one” in determining what will become of some 2 million gallons of wastewater from a nerve agent’s destruction since DuPont Co. has abandoned the project.

Army spokesman Greg Mahall said Thursday that military officials are now studying several methods for disposing the waste at the same western Indiana complex where the deadly Cold War-era VX nerve agent is being destroyed.

Before DuPont’s announcement, the Army had been pressing to ship the wastewater, called hydrolysate, from the Newport Chemical Depot about 30 miles north of Terre Haute, to an out-of-state location for secondary treatment and disposal.

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In May 2005, Army contractor Parsons Technology Inc. began destroying Newport’s stockpile of about 250,000 gallons of VX by neutralizing the agent in chemical reactors.

http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070202/NEWS/70202021/1006/NEWS


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• Fleecing of America: Parsons in Iraq

Jan. 31: A new report by government watchdogs singles out a big American contractor in Iraq -- Parsons -- for shoddy work. NBC's Lisa Myers investigates how they allegedly wasted tens of millions of taxpayer dollars.

By Lisa Myers
Senior investigative correspondent
NBC News
Updated: 6:56 p.m. ET Jan 31, 2007

WASHINGTON - New revelations have emerged about how tens of millions of taxpayer dollars have been wasted in Iraq. A new report by government watchdogs singles out a big American contractor — Parsons — for shoddy work. Investigators charge that Parsons managed to turn a flagship project to help train Iraqi police into a hall of horrors using taxpayer money.

The Baghdad Police Academy was supposed to be a showcase to train Iraqi police — key to the U.S. strategy.

Instead, Wednesday's report says the American construction company turned it into a disaster from the start: incomplete and substandard designs, shoddy construction and no real quality control.

"This is the worst project that my inspectors have visited," says Stuart Bowen, inspector general for Iraq.

Bowen says the Iraqis recently refused to take over the complex, calling the work disgusting.

http://rss.msnbc.msn.com/id/16909438/


Could this be just another unqualified Bush Admin Buddy making lots-o-war-profits while the gittin's good?

http://www.parsons.com/