Despite Controversy, Blackwater Awarded New DOD ContractIt’s not just the State Department that maintains a cozy relationship with Blackwater despite the September 16 Nisour Square shooting. Yesterday the U.S. military’s Transportation Command awarded a Blackwater affiliate a $92 million contract for aviation-related services for U.S. military flights between the archipelago of bases we’re using in South Asia.
Presidential Airways, Inc., an aviation Worldwide Services company (d/b/a Blackwater Aviation), Moyock, N.C., is being awarded an indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) type contract for $92,000,000.00. The contractor is to provide all fixed-wing aircraft, personnel, equipment, tools, material, maintenance and supervision necessary to perform passenger, cargo and combi Short Take-Off and Landing air transportation services between locations in the Area of Responsibility of Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan and Uzbekistan. This contract was competitively procured and two timely offers were received. The performance period is from 1 October 2007 to 30 September 2011. The United States Transportation Command Acquisition Directorate, Scott Air Force Base, Ill., is the contracting activity (HTC7 11 -08-D-0010).
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