DynCorp International Inc
Type: Public (NYSE: DCP)
Founded: 1946
Headquarters: Falls Church, Virginia, United States
Key people:
Herbert Lanese, President & CEO
Robert B. McKeon, Chairman
Anthony C. Zinni, Executive Vice President
Curtis L. Schehr, Senior Vice President, General Counsel, Secretary
Robert B. Rosenkranz, President, International Technical Services
Natale S. DiGesualdo, President, Field Technical Services
industry = private military contractor, aircraft maintenance
Products: Drug eradication, law enforcement training, logistics, security services; maintenance for aircraft, support equipment, and weapons systems
Net income: $7.2 Million USD (2006)
Employees: 14,000 (2007)<1>
Slogan: We are innovation in action
DynCorp International is a United States-based private military contractor (PMC) and aircraft maintenance company. DynCorp receives more than 96 percent of its $2 billion in annual revenues from the federal government. Most recently DynCorp has publicly expressed interest in patrolling the border between USA and Mexico.
DynCorp, along with partners Dewberry of Fairfax, Va., and Parsons Corporation of Pasadena, California, were awarded a contract to provide temporary housing to hurricane victims by FEMA. It is not known how many security contractors DynCorp may have sent with regards to that contract. However 13 officers were dispatched to assess possible damage to five hospitals in New Orleans, including the Memorial Medical Center and one in Biloxi, Mississippi at the request of Ross Perot and Tenet Healthcare.
In September 2005, Brigadier General Karl Horst, deputy commander of the Third Infantry Division in charge of security in Baghdad after the 2003 Invasion of Iraq, had this to say regarding some members of the private security firms operating in Iraq: "These guys run loose in this country and do stupid stuff. There's no authority over them, so you can't come down on them hard when they escalate force... They shoot people, and someone else has to deal with the aftermath. It happens all over the place". In February 2007 federal auditors cited DynCorp (IRAQ) for wasting millions on projects, including building an unapproved, Olympic-sized swimming pool at the behest of Iraqi police officials. The contract was a fixed-rate contract. Therefore, the building of the pool did not cause any extra burden on taxpayers.
In 1999 employees of the company were involved in the trading of sex slaves while working in Bosnia. A DynCorp employee, Kathryn Bolkovac, was fired after revealing that Dyncorp employees had frequented brothels where women had been imprisoned. Another Dyncorp employee, Ben Johnson, was also fired after revealing the involvement of some of his co-workers in forced-prostitution rings in Bosnia. At least 13 DynCorp employees have been sent home from Bosnia—- and at least seven of them fired—- for purchasing women or trafficking of women and children, though none have ever faced criminal sanctions. (More ..)
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