Saturday 20th of April 2024

Something There In Your Neighbourhood... Who You Gonna Call?

This will need remembering.  For some reason I find this to be quite disturbing.  No doubt an Australian  equivalent will follow.
[from Construction and Maintenance (posted today)]

 KBR awarded U.S. Department of Homeland Security project

Arlington, Virginia – KBR announced that the Department of Homeland
Security’s (DHS) U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
component has awarded KBR an Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity
(IDIQ) contingency contract to support ICE facilities in the event of
an emergency.

With
a maximum total value of $385 million over a five-year term, consisting
of a one-year based period and four one-year options, the competitively
awarded contract will be executed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,
Fort Worth District. KBR held the previous ICE contract from 2000
through 2005.

ICE is one of three agencies that make up the
Border and Transportation Security (BTS) Directorate of the DHS. The
mission of the BTS Directorate is to secure the nation's air, land and
sea borders. ICE, the largest investigative arm of the DHS, is
responsible for identifying and shutting down vulnerabilities in the
nation’s border, economic, transportation and infrastructure security.

KBR
is the engineering and construction subsidiary of Halliburton. KBR
employs more than 60, 000 people in 43 countries around the world.

Halliburton Watch continues:
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We are especially gratified to be awarded this contract because it
builds on our extremely strong track record in the arena of emergency
operations support,” Bruce Stanski, executive vice president of KBR's
Government and Infrastructure division, said in response to the DHS
contract award. “We look forward to continuing the good work we have
been doing to support our customer [the DHS] whenever and wherever we
are needed.”

Under the contract, KBR will build temporary detention facilities for
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), a department of the
DHS, "to augment existing ICE Detention and Removal Operations (DRO)
Program facilities in the event of an emergency influx of immigrants
into the U.S.," the company's press release said.

The contract requires KBR to provide logistics support to operate one
or more of the detention facilities if required. KBR will also perform
emergency repair and construction services for ICE in the event of a
natural disaster.

The five-year contract, consisting of a one-year base period and four
one-year options, was awarded to KBR via competitive bidding and will
be executed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Fort Worth District.
The contract takes effect immediately.

 

from the trough .....

‘Dallas – Oilfield services conglomerate Halliburton Co. swung to a profit in its fourth quarter on robust sales and increased rig activity, and called last year the best in its 86-year history.  

 

The income reversed a loss from a year earlier for Houston-based Halliburton, the company once led by Vice President Dick Cheney. Its KBR unit has become known for its support work for troops stationed in the Middle East.’  

 

Halliburton Swings To $1.1 Billion Profit