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Re: NPR morning news apparently just reported...

  • From: Eric A. Hall
  • Date: Fri May 23 17:37:01 2003

on 5/23/2003 3:33 PM Bill Woodcock wrote:
>     > According to this article, yes they were involved with
>     > AWCC:
>     > http://www.afghanwireless.com/news_6apr.html
> 
> Ouch.  If they were responsible for AWCC, that would hardly seem to be a
> basis for awarding them another similar contract.

AWCC is the permanent Afghan network. The network MCI is building in Iraq
is a temporary local network for use by the reconstruction teams.

I can't find anything that says whether this was awarded by USAID or by
the Pentagon directly. If the former, then this is likely to be a
subcontract under Bechtel.

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