- "A year ago, there was nothing sexy about being
a government contractor," said Charlene Wheeless, spokeswoman for
DynCorp, "Today, we're very sexy."
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- DynCorp, with 17,500-plus employees, over 550 operating
facilities around the world and annual revenues of more than $1.3 billion,
is a particularly massive entity. One of the Pentagon's largest contractors,
DynCorp's services are also integrated into the Drug Enforcement Agency,
Department of Justice, Environmental Protection Agency, Federal Communications
Commission, Internal Revenue Service and Treasury Department.
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- DynCorp is a master-of-all (information technology)-trades.
One of the largest employee-owned high-tech companies in the nation, DynCorp
offers technical, managerial, and professional services to customers ranging
from the Drug Enforcement Agency to the United Nations. Its Technical Services
branch accounts for about half of sales; DynCorp also provides enterprise
management and information and engineering technology. Contracts range
from providing the State Department with support services in Kosovo to
supplying Kuwait with repair and maintenance of military aircraft. The
US government, DynCorp's biggest client, accounts for about 95% of sales.
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- DynCorp has seen their fortunes rise in the aftermath
of the terrorist attacks, as investors are riding the wave of increased
federal spending on defense projects.
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- One thing is certain for DynCorp CEO Paul Lombardi these
days: It's been busy.
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- "We don't carry the guns, but we support the logistics,
supply chain, we fuel base camps, build roads, run telecommunications,"
Lombardi says. "We're all over the place in the [Persian] Gulf states."
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- Dyncorp has set up telecommunications systems in war
zones throughout Africa. It has contractors flying missions over the cocoa
fields of Columbia, destroying the plants that produce cocaine. It refuels
and runs ground support for the Air Force One fleet, and services all the
telecom for the State Department.
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- http://washington.bcentral.com/washington/stories/2001/10/29/newscolumn8.html
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- Since the terrorist attacks, Dyncorp has been asked to
take the government emergency telephone system completely wireless. It
has been asked by many defense agencies to help come up with contingency
plans if there is another attack. Dyncorp provided the crews for the civilian
transport ships that cruised into New York Harbor the day of the attacks.
The company runs the border stations with Mexico for the Immigration and
Naturalization Service, and has been asked to tighten security there.
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- DynCorp's role in Columbia
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- Officially, the employees are engaged in providing pilot
training and technical support for the Colombian National Police's illicit-plant
eradication effort in southern Colombia. But several reports suggest DynCorp
personnel are actively involved in counterinsurgency in the south, which
is controlled by the Colombian insurgents FARC.
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- DynCorp personnel at the San Jose del Guaviare military
base in southern Colombia are under strict orders not to speak with the
press.
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- The Buenos Aires daily Clarin reported that DynCorp employed
20 to 30 Vietnam vets in Colombia.
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- DynCorp's role in DOJ Asset Forfeiture
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- In 1996, The Asset Forfeiture Fund at DOJ had about $450
million dollars of total forfeitures, including the tail end of the BCCI
seizure. About $140 MM was real property at an average value of $149,000
per real estate sale. This indicates seizures of HUD-type homes, rather
than of drug lords. The DOJ has refused to disclose Asset Forfeiture Fund
financials since 1996.
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- DynCorp only did knowledge management and systems and
administrative support. They did not do any of the servicing, selling,
disposition, management of assets, etc.
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- The company is already well established in the peacekeeping
market. Founded in 1946, the company was taken private in a 1987 buyout.
It provided support services for famine aid in Somalia in 1992, and has
been supporting UN peacekeepers in Angola since December 1997.
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- DynCorp also had a contract with the State Department
to provide the U.S. contingent of cease-fire verifiers in Kosovo. That
contract was suspended with the commencement of the NATO bombing of the
Balkans. The de-mining of Bosnia has been contracted out to DynCorp. The
International Police Task Force that is training the native police in Bosnia
& Haiti are DynCorp employees. Many of the "U. N. peacekeepers"
in Kosovo are civilian DynCorp employees.
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- Five workers have been killed so far in Angola -- four
in two separate C-130 aircraft crashes, and one in an ambush.
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