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KBR vs. Army: On largest services contract, ‘things have gotten very nasty’

By Forseti | Filed in GOV. CONTRACTORS, KBR Files Suit, LAWSUITS, LOGCAP III - KBR
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Jim McElhatton – (Federal Times) – May 5, 2013 – Army contracting officer gave contractor Inc. a rare ultimatum: Provide a firm, fixed price on remaining work to close out the largest government services contract in U.S. history. Or else, he added, he was finished talking.

“Until I see that FFP deliverable, I cannot enter further communication exchanges with your contracts team,” Egan told the company in a Feb. 26 email.

At issue is the final stage of the Army’s $38 billion Logistics Civil Augmentation Program (LOGCAP) III, the 12-year-old logistics contract that has supported virtually all U.S. military logistics operations in . The Army seeks to revise the pricing terms on the final work to be done on the contract to be firm, fixed price instead of cost-reimbursable. In response, KBR has filed a lawsuit seeking to keep to the existing cost-reimbursable terms.

At stake in the dispute is far more than varying interpretations of contracting procedures. By its own estimates, KBR says the closeout work on the contract will cost more than $500 Read the remainder of this entry »

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KBR sues US Army after losing case to Oregon National Guardsmen

By Ms Sparky | Filed in CHEMICAL AND OTHER EXPOSURES, GOV. CONTRACTORS, KBR, KBR Contract, KBR Files Suit, LAWSUITS, Lawsuits Against KBR, Qarmat Ali Lawsuits, RIO-KBR, Sodium Dichromate @ Qarmat Ali
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The US Army resists ’s attempt to “gobble” up more taxpayer dollars as cries “fowl” and sues the US Army Corp of Engineers () after they refuse to indemnify the “turkey’s” ['s] legal fees from exposure of troops and others to at , . If I were the Army, I would be saying “Stick a fork in ‘em [KBR], they’re DONE!” (OK….that’s all the Thanksgiving cliche’s for now.)

On November 2, 2012, an Oregon federal jury ruled that KBR must pay $85 million to 12 Oregon National Guard members who allegedly suffered emotional distress after the company exposed them to sodium dichromate at Qarmat Ali.

Each guardsman was awarded $6.25 million in punitive damages after the jury determined that KBR “acted with reckless and outrageous indifference to a highly unreasonable risk of harm and conscious indifference to the health, safety and welfare of others,” as well as $850,000 in non-economic damages. Read the remainder of this entry »

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Secret squirrels squandering tax dollars & other news

By Forseti | Filed in A Soldiers Story, Commission on Wartime Contracting (CWC), GOV. CONTRACTORS, Indictments, Convictions & Arrests, KBR Files Suit, Lawsuits Against KBR, LOGCAP III - KBR, Politics, Reports & Investigations
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One project that attracted high-level scrutiny last year: a program started by DoD senior civilian strategist Michael Furlong that hired professional contractors to scoop up information in Afghanistan. Furlong, an ex-Army officer, said through his attorney Nancy Luque that the project was approved by Army , the commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, and by the newly nominated Central Command chief . – JIEDDO: The Manhattan Project that bombed

In effort to stop roadside bombs, Pentagon hires 1,666 contractors
Peter Cary & Nancy A. Youssef – (Center for Public Integrity & McClatchy Newspapers) – WASHINGTON – March 27, 2011 – Launched in February 2006 with an urgent goal — to save U.S. soldiers from being killed by roadside bombs in — a small Pentagon agency ballooned into a bureaucratic giant fueled by that flourishing arm of the defense establishment: private contractors.

An examination by the Center for Public Integrity and McClatchy of the revealed an agency so dominated by contractors that the ratio of contractors to government employees has reached six to one.

A former director, , acknowledged that such an imbalance raised the possibility that contractors in management positions could approve proposals or payments for other contractors. Oates said the ratio needed to be reduced.

The 1,900-person agency has spent nearly $17 billion on hundreds of high-tech and low-tech initiatives and had some successes, but it’s failed to significantly improve soldiers’ ability to detect roadside bombs, which have become the No. 1 killer of U.S. forces in Afghanistan. (Click HERE for article)

In the line of duty
Former cop ’s exploits in the Middle East sound like the plot of a Hollywood blockbuster – but has he got what it takes to make it as a politician?

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KBR withdraws appeal in Jamie Jones rape case

By Ms Sparky | Filed in Franken Amendment*, GOV. CONTRACTORS, Jamie Jones vs KBR, KBR Files Suit, LAWSUITS, LOGCAP III - KBR, Miscellaneous, Rape, Hazing, Discrimination & Harassment, Reports & Investigations, Senate & House Committee Hearings
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Halliburton drops high court appeal in case

Associated Press – March 22, 2010 4:05 PM ET

HOUSTON (AP) – Halliburton Co. and have withdrawn an appeal asking the Supreme Court to block the trial of a former military contractor from Texas who says she was raped by co-workers in .

Halliburton confirmed Monday that the appeal was withdrawn, but wouldn’t elaborate.

says she was raped while working for KBR in Baghdad in 2005. She later sued KBR and Halliburton, which split in 2007.

Halliburton and KBR had argued that Jones’ case should be settled in arbitration as required by her contract. A lower court ruled it could go to trial, which is set for May 2011.

The Associated Press usually doesn’t name people alleging sexual assault, but Jones’ identity has been broadcast in media reports and on her own Web site. (click HERE for original article)

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KBR v. Jamie Leigh Jones – US Supreme Court Petition

By Ms Sparky | Filed in Jamie Jones vs KBR, KBR Files Suit, LAWSUITS, Lawsuits Against KBR, LOGCAP III - KBR, Rape, Hazing, Discrimination & Harassment
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The blogosphere is all a-buzz about how has trashed victim Jamie Jones in their latest and lowest legal maneuver to suppress Jamie’s right to address this issue in court. KBR would insist Jamie address the crime of behind the closed doors of some dark dank back room where KBR’s secret arbitration hearings are allegedly held

Latoya Peterson at Jezebel.com wrote an awesome article entitled KBR Claims Crime Was “Distinct Risk” In Jamie Leigh Jones Case

The only thing I have to add to Latoya’s article is the actual 188 page Petition KBR filed with the US Supreme Court. KBR et al v Jamie Leigh Jones this is a good size document so give it a few extra seconds to load.

I find reading legal documents about as exciting as watching paint dry, so I haven’t read it all the way through. Those who have read it in it’s entirety are advising readers pay close attention to the footnotes. Read the remainder of this entry »

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