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DynCorp (), formally DynCorp International, was an American
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. Started as an aviation company, the company also provided flight operations support, training and mentoring, international development, intelligence training and support, contingency operations, security, and operations and maintenance of land vehicles. DynCorp received more than 96% of its more than $3 billion in annual revenue from the U.S. federal government. The corporate headquarters were in an unincorporated part of
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near
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, while the company's contracts were managed from its office at Alliance Airport in Fort Worth, Texas. DynCorp provided services for the U.S. military in several theaters, including
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, Somalia,
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, Haiti, Colombia, Kosovo and Kuwait. It also provided much of the security for Afghan president Hamid Karzai's presidential guard and trained much of the police forces of Iraq and Afghanistan. DynCorp was also hired to assist recovery in Louisiana and neighboring areas after
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. The company held one contract on every round of competition since receiving the first
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contract in 1951. In 2020, Dyncorp was bought by Germantown, Maryland-based defense support services conglomerate
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. On April 21, 2021, the DynCorp name was discontinued, and employees and services transferred to Amentum.


History


Beginnings (1946–1961)

DynCorp traces its origins from two companies formed in 1946: California Eastern Airways (CEA), an air freight business, and Land-Air Inc., an aircraft maintenance company. California Eastern Airways was founded by a small group of returning World War II pilots who wanted to break into the air cargo business.Baum, Dan
This Gun For Hire
''Wired''. February 2003.
They were one of the first firms to ship cargo by air, and within a year, the firm was serving both coasts.Merle, Renae

''The Washington Post''. December 14, 2002.
This information is derived from the following source: ''Note'', this compilation reports, to a significant degree, information self-reported by the company, and so constitutes information not strictly third-party in nature. California Eastern Airways diversified into multiple government aviation and managerial jobs, airlifted supplies for the Korean War, and was responsible for the White Sands Missile Range (a client that DynCorp has retained for 50 years). In 1951 Land-Air Inc., which implemented the first
Contract Field Teams The Contract Field Teams program (also called Contractor Field Teams and commonly abbreviated CFT) is a program of the United States Air Force designed to provide temporary and long-term labor support for a variety of technical service needs; maint ...
(teams of technicians that maintained military aircraft for the United States Air Force), was bought by California Eastern Aviation Inc. DynCorp still holds the contract 50 years later, maintaining rotary and fixed-wing aircraft for all branches of the U.S. Armed Forces. At this time, revenues for the company reached $6 million. In 1952 the company, renamed California Eastern Aviation, Inc., merged with Air Carrier Service Corporation (AIRCAR), which sold commercial aircraft and spare parts to foreign airlines and governments.


Dynalectron (1962–1987)

By 1961 California Eastern Aviation needed a new name to reflect the growing and diversifying company. The name "Dynalectron Corporation" was selected from 5,000 employee suggestions. In 1976 Dynalectron established headquarters in McLean, Virginia. Due to its growing size, the company restructured into four main operating groups: Specialty Contracting, Energy, Government Services, and Aviation Services. In the 30 years since the foundation of CEA, Dynalectron had acquired 19 companies in 30 years, had assets of $88 million, maintained a backlog of $250 million, employed 7,000, and had annual sales of $300 million. In 1964 Dynalectron diversified into the energy services business with the acquisition of Hydrocarbon Research, Inc. Through this acquisition Dynalectron developed a process called H-Coal, which converted coal into synthetic liquid fuels.Jones, William H. (July 12, 1978). "Dynalectron Has An Oil Answer; New Process For Coal Conversion." ''The Washington Post''. The work began to attract national attention with the
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s of the 1970s. By the early 1980s Texaco, Ruhrkohle and
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were all marketing Dynalectron's H-Oil process. Between 1976 and 1981 the company had two public stock offerings and acquired another 14 companies.Leibovich, Mark
DynCorp Letter May Offer . . . a Hint
''The Washington Post''. August 4, 1988.
By 1986 Dynaelectron was one of the largest defense contractors in North America.


DynCorp and expansion (1987–2003)

In 1987 Dynalectron changed its name to DynCorp. In 1988 DynCorp went private to avoid a
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by Miami financier
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, via an employee initiative led by Daniel R. Bannister. Bannister, as T. Rees Shapiro wrote in his 2011 obituary, "was paid $1.65 an hour when he joined DynCorp as an electronics technician in 1953," rising to serve as its president and CEO (1985 to 1997). In 1994 DynCorp's revenues were approximately $1 billion. By the time of his retirement in 2003, Shapiro notes that Bannister "oversaw the acquisition of more than 40 companies… ndwas credited with helping to mold… an aviation services company into a sprawling conglomerate that employed 24,000 people and earned $2.4 billion in annual revenue." As well he "oversaw DynCorp contracts to operate missile test ranges for the Defense Department, develop vaccines for the National Institutes of Health and install security systems in U.S. embassies for the State Department." Shapiro notes that during Bannister's tenure Dyncorp had also "supplied bodyguards to Haitian President Jean Bertrand Aristide in the 1990s and to
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Hamid Karzai in the early 2000s." With the reductions in military spending in the 1990s, DynCorp expanded their focus to the growing tech market. It bought 19 digital and network service firms and acquired contracts with the government's information technology (IT) departments. By 2003 roughly half of DynCorp's business came from managing the IT departments of the
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, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, among others. In 1999 DynCorp moved its headquarters to
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. In December 2000 DynCorp formed DynCorp International LLC, and transferred all its international business to this entity. DynCorp Technical Services LLC continued to perform DynCorp's domestic contracts.


Sale to CSC, IPO, and purchase by Cerberus Capital (2003-2020)

In March 2003 DynCorp and its subsidiaries were acquired by
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(CSC) for approximately $914 million. Less than two years later, CSC announced the sale of three DynCorp units (DynCorp International, DynMarine and certain DynCorp Technical Services contracts) to Veritas Capital Fund, LP for $850 million. After the sale, CSC retained the rights to the name "DynCorp" and the new company became DynCorp International. In 2006 DynCorp International went public on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol DCP. On April 12, 2010, DynCorp International announced a conditional deal to be acquired by private equity investment firm
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for $17.55 per share ($1 billion). The deal was agreed on 7 July 2010. In December 2011 the company hired Michael Thibault, former co-chairman and commissioner of the Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan (CWC), as vice president of government finance and compliance. Thibault worked for many years at the
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(DCAA), serving as Deputy Director from 1994 to 2005.Gordon, Neil
Two Former Watchdogs Ring in the New Year on the Other Side of the Revolving Door
''Pogo''. January 5, 2011.
In 2011 Dyncorp set a company record with 12,300 new hires, bringing the total number of employees to 27,000.


Acquisition by Amentum (2020–present)

On November 23, 2020,
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, a contractor supporting U.S. federal and allied governments, announced that it has closed the acquisition of DynCorp International (due to multiple human trafficking cases), a provider of sophisticated aviation, logistics, training, intelligence and operational solutions in over 30 countries worldwide. The combination has also created one of the largest providers of mission critical support services to government customers, with 34,000 team members in 105 countries around the world.


Services


Air operations

DynCorp International provides aviation support to reduce the flow of illicit drugs, strengthen law enforcement, and eliminate terrorism.DynCorp planning $450 million IPO
''Fort Worth Star-Telegram''. September 29, 2005.

''Fox News''. October 23, 2007.
Their air operations include the operation of
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and
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on and around aircraft carriers for either combat or non-combat missions, aviation life support missions, and aerial/satellite imagery.DynCorp's aircraft carrier flight operations include preflight, launch and recovery operations
''Rotor & Wing''. January 1, 2006.
Clabaugh, Jeff

''Washington Business Journal''. August 17, 2011.
DynCorp was hired to strengthen the Afghan air force, helping to train Afghan pilots so they could, in turn, train other Afghans. They have also provided air operations support in Iraq, including search and rescue, medical evacuations, and transporting
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s.Butterfield, Ethan
DynCorp lands $450M Navy contingency services deal
''Washington Technology''. November 3, 2006.


Aviation

DynCorp International began as an aeronautical company in the 1950s and continues to provide aviation support globally. Aviation support including emergency response air programs, aircraft maintenance, theater aviation support management,DynCorp Awarded Up to $80M Contract for Support from U.S. Army
''DefenseWorld''. October 21, 2011.
helicopter maintenance support, supportability and testing.Watson, Tim
DynCorp Wins Potential $490M Contract for Aviation Maintenance, Logistics Support
''Govcon Wire''. August 11, 2011.
In 2012 DynCorp played a key part in the Space Shuttle Endeavour's final flight as it made its way from the Kennedy Space Center in Orlando to the California Science Center in Los Angeles aboard NASA's specially crafted
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(SCA). The SCA was a uniquely configured Boeing 747-100 aircraft. DynCorp mechanics worked with NASA and other support contractors performed maintenance and inspection services to the SCA. DynCorp's involvement in Endeavour's final flight was part of a contract NASA awarded to the company in April 2012 to provide aircraft maintenance and operational support at various locations throughout the country.


Emergency response air programs

DynCorp has been working with the
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(known as CAL FIRE) to suppress and control wild land fire.DynCorp International to Help Fight California Wildfires
. ''Reuters''. July 23, 2008.
DynCorp flies and maintains
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fire retardant air tankers and OV-10A aircraft, and maintains and services civilian UH-1H Super Huey helicopters flown by CAL FIRE pilots. Operating from across California, aircraft can reach most fires within 20 minutes.


Aircraft maintenance

DynCorp provides aircraft maintenance, fleet testing and evaluation for rotary, fixed, " lighter-than-air", and unmanned aircraft. Specifically, they provide on-site work for project testing, transient, loaner, leased and tested civilian aircraft services. DynCorp also performs supportability and safety studies as well as off-site aircraft safety and spill containment patrols and aircraft recovery services. DynCorp has received contracts for aircraft maintenance with the United States Navy, the U.S. Air Force,DynCorp International Awarded $93M Contract for Aircraft Maintenance Support from US Air Force
''DefenseWorld''. May 23, 2012.
the U.S. Army, and NASA.Troiani, Gino
DynCorp Wins Potential $177M Award for NASA Aircraft Engineering
''Govcon Wire''. April 19, 2012.
DynCorp provides aircraft maintenance in countries including the Republic of the Philippines, the United States, throughout Europe, Southwest Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. Additionally, DynCorp provides aircraft maintenance support to facilities including the NAS Patuxent River, Johnson Space Center in Houston, the Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, NASA facilities in El Paso, Texas, Edwards Air Force Base in California, and Robins Air Force Base (AFB) in Georgia. Among its notable awards is its unbroken record of having received a contract in every round of competition under the United States Air Force-managed
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(CFT) program since the CFT program started in 1951. The company recently opened up an office in Huntsville, Alabama, to allow it to further focus on its aviation business. The Army Materiel Command, Army Contracting Command and the U.S. Army Security Assistance Command all have or soon will have their headquarters on Redstone Arsenal. The U.S. Air Force chose DynCorp to supply support services for the military's T-6 and T-6B trainer aircraft. As part of that contract DynCorp will open, operate and manage Contractor Operated and Maintained Base Supply facilities at nine Air Force and Navy locations.


Helicopter maintenance support

DynCorp International has been the incumbent recipient of helicopter maintenance and support contracts supporting the U.S. Army, the U.S. Air Force, and the U.S. Navy.DynCorp wins $25M Kuwait Air Force Apache contract
''Heli Hub''. April 16, 2012.
It also received the task order to provide theater aviation support management for US Army helicopters in Europe (TASM-E). The U.S. Army Contracting Command gave DynCorp International a contract to provide a maintenance augmentation team for the
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's
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helicopter maintenance program. DynCorp has worked as a partner for supporting the Air Force's fleet of 39 F/A-18 Hornet aircraft program since 1997.


Contingency operations

A significant part of the company's business since the 1990s has come from contingency operations support. The company supports existing bases in Southern Afghanistan, builds new ones as needed, and provides base support services.


Development

In January 2010 DynCorp International combined with World Wide Humanitarian Services (WWHS) and Casals & Associates to form DI Development. DI Development provides humanitarian aid, reconstruction to conflict and post-conflict areas, and governance reforms. DynCorp International made several acquisitions in 2009 and 2010 to adapt to the defense sector's shift towards diplomacy and development work, in particular acquiring an international development firm in order to enter the international aid community. DI Development is particularly active in
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and Latin America. In Africa DI Development strengthened government financial management in Ghana, assisted in peace and recovery advancement in Uganda, and led anti-corruption programs in Madagascar, Malawi, and Nigeria. In Latin America DI Development implemented anti-corruption, transparency, and accountability programs in Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Panama, and provided democracy and governance initiatives in Mexico,
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, and the Dominican Republic.


Intelligence training and solutions

In 2010 DynCorp International acquired Phoenix Consulting Group to expand the company into intelligence training and solutions. By acquiring the Phoenix Consulting Group, DynCorp provides training courses to the intelligence community at the Phoenix Training Center. Dyncorp International employs 300 intelligence professionals to offer highly specialized training for intelligence,
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, special operations and law enforcement personnel. It also provides linguist operations, including language training, translation specialists recruiting, and field translation support for the U.S. armed forces. Through a joint venture with McNeil Technologies called Global Linguist Solutions, Dyncorp was awarded a five-year contract to provide management of translation and interpretation services to support U.S. Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM) as part of Operation Iraqi Freedom. Under the contract, DynCorp employed 6,000 locally hired translators and 1,000 U.S. citizens who are native speakers of languages spoken in Iraq. DynCorp International was also given a $17.1 million task order to provide leadership to military personnel of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The program focuses on training junior and mid-level personnel in areas such as communications, logistics, and engineering. DynCorp president Steven Schorer expects the training and support logistics for the military and intelligence community to grow significantly in the coming years. Two DynCorp American employees were among the five killed in Jordan by a co-worker on 9 November 2015. The incident occurred at the International Police Training Centre in Zarqa. The program the men were working on is funded by the State Department's
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and Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs.


Operations and maintenance

DynCorp provides military base operations and vehicle maintenance. They manage installations for military bases for the Department of Defense and the Department of State, and provide security services, fire and rescue emergency services, and IT/telecommunication services. In particular, DynCorp supports a military base camp in Kosovo, providing power plant maintenance, fueling services, and grounds maintenance. DynCorp is also active in vehicular maintenance, in particular providing the United Arab Emirates with depot-level maintenance, facilities management, and commercialization for its 17,000 ground vehicles. In April 2012 DynCorp International was awarded a contract with the U.S. Navy to provide facility support services for personnel from the Naval Mobile Construction Battalion unit Timor-Leste, including living quarters, internet and telephone services, bathroom facilities, laundry services, kitchen facilities, vehicle/driver/language support, procurement services, warehousing and other services. DynCorp also formed a joint venture with
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, Force Protection Industries, and McLane Advanced Technologies to pursue a $3 billion five-year Army contract for support and maintenance of mine-resistant ambush-protected vehicles.Hayes, Heather
DynCorp reorg fuels boom
''Washington Technology''. June 20, 2012.
The U.S. Defense Department gave DynCorp the Nunn-Perry Award in recognition of its mentor-protege arrangement with CenterScope Technologies, in which it provided coaching in development of new markets, establishing international operations and in worldwide logistics. As a result of this mentoring CTSI's revenue grew from $5 million to $32 million in 18 months.


Security services

DynCorp provides personal security throughout various parts of the world. It supplies Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East with
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protection, perimeter security, base security, and guard services. DynCorp supported the U.S. Army in the Persian Gulf with vehicle searches, roving patrols, and explosive-detecting dogs. It also provides personal security to many regions of Iraq and Afghanistan. Culpeper National Security Solutions is a unit of DynCorp.


Training and mentoring

DynCorp delivers training for multiple sectors, including security sector reform, interior and defense personnel in underdeveloped nations, and law enforcement. Since 1994 DynCorp has trained and deployed 6,000 law enforcement workers in 16 countries, including Iraq and Afghanistan. DynCorp is looking to partner with Raytheon as a prime or subcontractor on the Teach, Educate, Coach program, which is part of the Army's Warfighter Field Operations Customer Support program.


Controversies


Latin America incidents

In September 2001 Ecuadorian farmers filed a class-action lawsuit against DynCorp. On February 15, 2013, the court granted summary judgment to DynCorp, dismissing the sole remaining human health and medical monitoring claims Ecuadorian plaintiffs had brought in connection with counternarcotic aerial herbicide spraying operations in southern Colombia. http://about.bloomberglaw.com/videos/dyncorps-strategic-defense-in-drug-crop-spraying-suit/ The plaintiffs are preparing to appeal the dismissal. An extensive accusation concerning DynCorp's activities and alleged abuses in Colombia was presented against DynCorp at the Hearing on Biodiversity of the
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, session on Colombia at the Cacarica Humanitarian Zone from February 24 to 27, 2007. Three DynCorp employees died when their helicopter was shot down during an anti-drug mission in Peru in 1992. On November 29, 2008, a lengthy article in '' The New York Times'' questioned the potential conflict of interest in the hiring by Veritas Capital Fund, LP, holding company for DynCorp, of Gen.
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. McCaffrey had previously served as White House "Drug Czar", where he shaped future federal public-private partnership in drug enforcement policy.


Sex trafficking of children in Bosnia

According to Human Rights Watch, there is substantial evidence that points to the involvement of DynCorp contractors in trafficking of women and girls in Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as violence against them. In the late 1990s two employees, Ben Johnston, a former DynCorp aircraft mechanic, and
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, a U.N. International Police Force monitor, independently alleged that DynCorp employees in Bosnia engaged in sex with minors and sold them to each other as slaves. Johnston and Bolkovac were fired, and Johnston was later placed into
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before leaving several days later. On June 2, 2000, an investigation was launched in the DynCorp hangar at Comanche Base Camp, one of two U.S. bases in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and all DynCorp personnel were detained for questioning.
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spent several weeks investigating and the results appear to support Johnston's allegations. DynCorp had fired five employees for similar illegal activities prior to the charges. Many of the employees accused of sex trafficking were forced to resign under suspicion of illegal activity. As of 2014 no one had been prosecuted. In 2002 Bolkovac filed a lawsuit in Great Britain against DynCorp for unfair dismissal due to a protected disclosure (whistleblowing), and won. Bolkovac co-authored a book with Cari Lynn titled ''The Whistleblower: Sex Trafficking, Military Contractors And One Woman's Fight For Justice''. In 2010 the film ''
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'', starring Rachel Weisz and Vanessa Redgrave, was released.


Iraq incidents

According to ''The New York Times'', the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR) found that "DynCorp seemed to act almost independently of its reporting officers at the Department of State, billing the United States for millions of dollars of work that were not authorized and beginning other jobs without a go-ahead." The report states that the findings of DynCorp's misconduct on a $188 million job to buy weapons and build quarters for the Iraqi police were serious enough to warrant a fraud inquiry. A U.S. government audit report of October 2007 revealed that $1.3 billion was spent on a contract with DynCorp for training Iraqi police. The auditors stated that the program was mismanaged to such an extent that they were unable to determine how the money was spent. In February 2007 federal auditors cited DynCorp for wasting millions on projects, including building an unapproved, Olympic-sized swimming pool at the behest of Iraqi police officials. In April 2011 DynCorp agreed to pay $7.7 million to the U.S. government to settle claims that it had inflated claims for construction contracts in Iraq. On October 11, 2007, a DynCorp security guard in a U.S. State Department convoy killed a taxi driver in Baghdad. According to several witnesses, the taxi did not pose a threat to the convoy's security. A January 2010 SIGIR report assessed that oversight of DynCorp police training contracts by the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs found that INL exhibited weak oversight of the DynCorp task orders for support of the Iraqi police training program. It found that INL lacks sufficient resources and controls to adequately manage the task orders with DynCorp. As a result, more than $2.5 billion in U.S. funds were vulnerable to waste and fraud, although SIGIR's Iraq reconstruction inspector
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noted that there was no indication that DynCorp had misspent any of the $2.5 billion.


Afghanistan incidents

In 2009 DynCorp contractors paid a 15-year-old Afghan Bacha Bazi performer to perform lap dances and entertain them in
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. Several Afghans were later arrested and investigated. A Wikileaks cable released after the incident stated that the Afghan interior minister at the time,
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, asked the assistant U.S. ambassador to try to "quash" both the story and release of video from the incident. In response to the incident, DynCorp fired four senior managers and established a chief compliance officer position, which focused on ethics, business conduct, related investigations, and regulatory compliance. On July 30, 2010, a riot broke out when an Afghan car and a DynCorp vehicle crashed on a road near Kabul International Airport. Although initial reports blamed the company and claimed four Afghans were killed in the accident, Sayed Abdul Ghaffar, the head of the Kabul police criminal investigations division, told ''The New York Times'' that the Afghan driver had caused the accident and said only one Afghan died in the wreck.


Mozambique incident

According to Mozambican media reports, the Mozambican government seized and impounded the 16-vehicle shipment pending the outcome of investigations into alleged tax evasion and deception by OTT Technologies Mozambique.


Trump administration lobbying

DynCorp lobbied the Trump administration intensely to get the Trump administration to rescind a $10 billion contract that the Obama administration made with a rival company to service State Department aircraft.


See also

* Blackwater Worldwide * Carratu International * Fluor Corporation * KBR *
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References


Further reading


''The Washington Post''

* Chandrasekaran, Rajiv, "The Bloom Is on DynCorp," '' The Washington Post'', August 5, 1996, p. F9. * Day, Kathleen, "DynCorp Discussing the Sale of a Division; Reston Firm's Aviation Services Unit on Block," '' The Washington Post'', August 8, 1995, p. D1. * —, —, "DynCorp Retools with a Focus on Information Technology," '' The Washington Post'', August 14, 1995, p. F8. * —, —, "A Welcome from the Music Man," '' The Washington Post'', August 14, 1995, p. F8. * Haggerty, Maryann, "Engineering a Career in Energy Programs at DynCorp," '' The Washington Post'', June 14, 1993, p. F11. * Isikoff, Michael, "Dynalectric Indicted on Bid Rigging Charge; McLean Firm, Former President Agree to Plead Guilty, Forgo Appeal of Earlier Conviction," '' The Washington Post'', April 24, 1987, p. F1. * —, —, "Dynalectron Officer Indicted for Bid Rigging," '' The Washington Post'', September 20, 1986, p. D1. * —, —, "Dynalectron Puts Official on Paid Leave," '' The Washington Post'', October 30, 1986, p. E1. * Jones, William H., "Dynalectron Corp. Posts 'Large, Unexpected Losses,'" '' The Washington Post'', March 13, 1979, p. D10. * —, — –, "Dynalectron Has an Oil Answer," '' The Washington Post'', July 12, 1978, p. E1. * —, — –, "Dynalectron May Be Part of Coal Conversion Plan," '' The Washington Post'', May 17, 1979, p. C1. * Koklanaris, Maria, "DynCorp Acquires Local Firm in Bid to Diversify; Company Seeks to Cut Pentagon Dependence," '' The Washington Post'', May 6, 1991, p. F6. * McCarthy, Ellen, "Calif. Firm Confirms Plan to Buy DynCorp Unit," '' The Washington Post'', October 5, 2001. * Mintz, John, "FBI Probes DynCorp on Fort Belvoir Work," '' The Washington Post'', January 11, 1994, p. D2. * Southerland, Daniel, "DynCorp Unit Picked to Run U.S. Oil Reserve," '' The Washington Post'', November 24, 1992, p. D1. * Sugawara, Sandra, "DynCorp Wins Big Energy Job," '' The Washington Post'', April 23, 1994, p. C1.


Other sources

* BW Staff, "A New Push for Coal-to-Oil Technology," ''
Business Week ''Bloomberg Businessweek'', previously known as ''BusinessWeek'', is an American weekly business magazine published fifty times a year. Since 2009, the magazine is owned by New York City-based Bloomberg L.P. The magazine debuted in New York City ...
'', November 7, 1977. * BW Staff, "Dynalectron: Determined That Synfuels Will Fuel the Company's Growth," ''
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'', June 28, 1982, p. 130. * Celarier, Michelle, "Catch-23: Private Industries Bidding Against Government Entities for Pentagon Contracts Often Face Obstacles and Lose Money," ''CFO: The Magazine for Senior Financial Executives'', June 1998, pp. 50–58. * Deflem, Mathieu, and Suzanne Sutphin. 2006
"Policing Post-War Iraq: Insurgency, Civilian Police, and the Reconstruction of Society."
Sociological Focus 39(4):265-283. * Kady, Martin, II, "DynCorp Rallies the Troops to Keep Up with the Demand," ''
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'', October 26, 2001. * Lemke, Tim, "DynCorp Could Gain More Business from Defense," ''
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'', September 24, 2001, p. D5. * McCance, McGregor, "Initiative Helps Keep Computing Systems Updated in Virginia," '' Richmond Times-Dispatch'', July 21, 2001. * Wakeman, Nick, "DynCorp Revs Up 'Horsepower' in Gov't Market," ''
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'', April 2, 2001, p. 1. * Wreden, Nick, "Unblinking Customer Focus," ''VAR Business'', July 6, 1998, p. 69. {{Authority control Cerberus Capital Management companies Business services companies established in 1946 1946 establishments in California American mercenaries Private military contractors Security companies of the United States Security consulting firms Service companies of the United States Defense companies of the United States Iraq War Transport companies established in 1946 Companies based in McLean, Virginia 2003 mergers and acquisitions 2006 initial public offerings 2010 mergers and acquisitions