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...And SRA International and DynCorp were standalone defence consultants that were also acquired by financial sponsors....
...It earned $40.8bn during the past decade, while Agility, the logistics company, and DynCorp, which specialises in security, earned $9bn and $7.4bn respectively, according to a US government report....
...This spring, Alenia ended the maintenance subcontract and hired DynCorp International to replace it, the officials said....
...Two contractors that have previously won big overseas security and policing contracts – Xe, formerly known as Blackwater, and DynCorp – have drawn heavy criticism for their work in Iraq and Afghanistan....
...The group has a long track record in the defence and government services sectors including its sale of DynCorp International to Cerberus Capital Management in April for $1.5bn....
...The US embassy said an American working for Dyncorp, the US security company, and another foreign national were among the dead....
...Also on Monday, a US civilian contractor working for DynCorp, the security company, was killed when a team of suicide bombers attacked a police training base in Kandahar, Afghanistan’s second biggest city...
...In the US, Armor’s rivals include DynCorp and Triple Canopy....
...In one case in 2004 an employee of the US company DynCorp caused outrage by slapping the minister of transport in the face while protecting President Hamid Karzai....
...Dyncorp International, a large security group that has suffered many more casualties than Kroll, said it had no plans to pull out. The US State Department did not return calls seeking comment....
...The government of President Alvaro Uribe, aided by US companies such as Dyncorp, is striving to end Colombia's long-held status as the world's biggest cocaine producer....
...Associated Press said the dead Americans were all employees of DynCorp, the US private security firm....
...12m) to two US companies, PAE Group and Dyncorp, to provide logistics. Officials said the US would not use its own military assets....
...A government statement said at least seven people, including two Americans, three Nepalese Ghurkas who work as guards for Dyncorp, and two Afghans had been killed....
...The US government rejected DynCorp's complaint last September....
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