Dyncorp International, now a part of Amentum, in December won a task order valued at up to $554 million for support of aircraft. Without contractors, none of these aircraft can remain effective for combat for more than a few months, Sopko warned.
“We are going to put in a bunch of contractors, they are going to get hundreds of millions of dollars to maintain this fleet, and the fleet is not going to be used,” he said. would have to keep sending in contractors, he said, and “contracts are going to be ridiculous” going forward. To support the Afghan air force, the U.S. “I see it as a total boondoggle,” Dempsey said in an interview. Photographer: Thomas Watkins/AFP via Getty Images decision to send Blackhawks to Afghanistan that the local security forces can’t operate or maintain is ripe for fraud and abuse, said Jason Dempsey, an adjunct senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security. The one thing I can tell you is we are not going to be there on the ground with them.”Ĭontractor Exodus Will Cripple Afghan Air Force, Watchdog Says Future ‘Boondoggle’ “We’re going to try all kinds of innovative ways. “We may be able to work some remote, televised way to do that,” he said at the Pentagon on Thursday. The Pentagon is looking at alternatives to help the Afghans in the maintenance effort from a distance, McKenzie said. The Afghan government relies on contractors to train in using, and maintain, U.S.-supplied equipment such as Lockheed Martin Corp.’s UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters and C-130 transport aircraft, he said.
The departure of contractors was largely ignored as the focus shifted to when Biden would withdraw the military, Sopko told a forum organized by the Center for Strategic and International Studies. troop pullout, John Sopko, the special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction, said last month. contractors leaving Afghanistan could be more “devastating” to the Afghan security forces than the U.S. Kirby indicated plans are in flux and could change. The Pentagon has yet to provide details on how many contractors will be extracted. The preliminary plan is for at least some contractors to leave during the military withdrawal from Afghanistan, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said this month after Biden’s announcement. That is part of the planned withdrawal we have in place right now.” contractors will come out as we come out. He offered no details and later in the week, at a Pentagon press briefing, he said, “the U.S. Kenneth McKenzie, the head of Central Command, told the House Armed Services Committee on April 20. “Most of the contractors are going to leave, and certainly the U.S. troops from Afghanistan makes it likely that fuel services will no longer be needed in the country. Meanwhile, one vendor- Secure Movement Logistics Services-received $680 million for petroleum, oil, and lubricant product support. to include training and mentoring, and for the Afghanistan technical equipment maintenance program. The Pentagon spent $935 million over four years on contracts with PAE Inc. The Pentagon also has spent $1.2 billion for helicopter transport during the same 2016 to January 2021 period, primarily with two companies: Columbia Helicopters, at $966 million, and Construction Helicopters Inc. Fluor officials didn’t respond to a request for comment. It also helped with training the Afghans’ national police and army, contract data show.Īmentum doesn’t have a comment for this article, a company spokeswoman said.
In short, it’s an indefinite delivery and quantity contract given in multiple awards.Īmentum, for example, works on air traffic control, airfield upkeep, unmanned aircraft operations, and maintenance. Both Fluor and Amentum’s largest contract is known as a logistics civil augmentation program. Contract data is available only through the first half of January 2021.
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