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"Trace" <tracey12_12@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Rumsfeld's Mystery Contingency Operations
>
> CACI Gets Bigger
>
> by John Stanton
>
> According to the Federal Procurement Data System (fpds.gov) database,
> the US DOD's US Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) has awarded just
> over 29,000 contracts since at least October of 2003. A review of 2,000
> of those contracts shows that awards go to the usual suspects like
> SAIC, Lockheed Martin and Raytheon. Some go to unusual suspects like
> Colombia Tri-Star pictures and Time Warner for movie and video
> distribution services.
>
> 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 $17K to $25M (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 of 2006.
>
> According to fpds.gov, the effort operates under the guidelines
> established in 10 USC 101(a)(13). That section of the US Code states
> the following:
>
> "(13) The term "contingency operation" means a military operation that-
> (A) is designated by the Secretary of Defense as an operation in which
> members of the armed forces are or may become involved in military
> actions, operations, or hostilities against an enemy of the United
> States or against an opposing military force; or (B) results in the
> call or order to, or retention on, active duty of members of the
> uniformed services under Section 688, 12301 (a), 12302, 12304, 12305,
> or 12406 of this title, chapter 15 of this title, or any other
> provision of law during a war or during a national emergency declared
> by the President or Congress."
>
> The Defense Systems Information Agency, National Capitol Area
> (DISA-NCA) has also funded the effort under the ominous heading "other
> justice, public order, safety act".
>
> The fpds.gov 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.com, it turns out that the former American Management Systems,
> Inc. (ams.com) was located in Suite 911. CGI (cgi.com), "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 $1B (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.
> According to investorideas.com, "The huge CACI-CG-AMS transaction
> involved thousands of employees and over $1 billion in cash. For CACI,
> it was the largest acquisition in the company's 42-year history. The
> transaction increased CACI's workforce by almost one quarter -- from
> some 7,600 employees to more than 9,400 -- brought in more than 300 new
> contracts, and raised revenue to $1 billion for the first time in the
> company's history."
>
> Having reviewed just 50 or so entries for this contract
> (Dxxxxx04xxxxx), and ending up at a $100M USD 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 on 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.)
>
> --
>
> John Stanton is a Virginia Based writer specializing in political &
> national security matters. He is the author of America 2004: A Power
> But Not Super. Reach him at cioran123 [at] yahoo.com.
>