Wired.com
September 22, 2012
Now that the private security company formerly known as Blackwater is?under new ownership, it?s entering into a new partnership with the Defense Department.
The U.S. military?s intelligence service is hiring the firm, along with five others, to train its operatives to defend themselves as they collect information in dangerous places ? something particularly salient as the Mideast continues to?light up with anti-American fervor.
The Defense Intelligence Agency announced on Thursday evening it would award six private security companies a share of a $20 million contract to provide ?individual protective measures training courses? for its operatives.
Among them is Academi, the 3.0 version of Blackwater, now under new ownership and management.
It appears to be the first Blackwater/Academi contract with the military since a Blackwater ?shell company? called Paravant?held one to train Afghan policemen?? and used it to steal their guns for personal use, while?posing as?South Park?characters?to disguise their tracks.
And this isn?t just any old training contract. It?s part of an effort to prepare the Defense Intelligence Agency?s information gatherers for work in the rugged, remote, and unpleasant parts of the world.
?The training is designed for personnel before they leave on overseas deployments,? reads a description of the contract, ?to provide them with a foundation of hard and soft skills relevant to living and working in hostile and austere environments.? Nor is it a one-off: the training contract has a five-year life span.
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