Now adopted among U.S. law enforcement, hundreds of police departments can use Gotham to analyze data on civilians’ ...

Can Blackwater incidents shed light on contractors' mental health? Oct. 3, 2007 — -- Along with congressional hearings on allegations of recklessness against Blackwater USA security forces in ...

Monday the Court called for the views of the Solicitor General in Carmichael v. Kellogg, Brown & Root Services, No. 09-683, a case arising from an auto accident in Iraq. The petition raises an ...

Military investigators said yesterday that they will not file any charges after completing their investigation into an incident in Iraq last May in which a group of Marines alleged they had been fired ...

RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Appellate judges heard arguments Tuesday in an appeal brought by a U.S. military contractor ordered to pay $42 million for contributing to the torture of three former detainees at ...

RICHMOND, Va. (CN) — A military contractor asked a Fourth Circuit panel Tuesday to annul $42 million in damages awarded to tortured Iraqi detainees. The claims stem from CACI Premier Technology’s ...

WASHINGTON -- All State Department security convoys in Iraq will now fall under military control, the latest step taken by government officials to bring Blackwater Worldwide and other armed ...

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In recent years, the Pentagon has come to increasingly rely on private military contractors to do the work that members of the military used to do. But as the number of civilian contractors has grown, ...

Those who support using private military and security contractors often claim that a major reason for doing so is that it is more cost-effective than using regular military forces. While there hasn’t ...

Says she was drugged, assaulted while working for military contractor KBR. June 21, 2011 — -- A woman who says she was drugged and gang-raped while working for military contractor KBR in Iraq ...