Aegis Defence Services - Aegis in Iraq

Aegis in Iraq

In Iraq, Aegis is under contract (worth $293 million over three years) to the U.S. Department of Defense to provide security support services to the Project and Contracting Office (PCO), responsible for managing the reconstruction program. These services include:

1. providing static and mobile security details for the PCO and United States Army Corps of Engineers;
2. maintaining situational awareness of logistical movement and reconstruction security operations;
3. facilitating intelligence–sharing between security forces and reconstruction contractors; and,
4. providing continuous information on the viability of road movement throughout the country.

Through its charitable foundation Aegis conducts a self-funded civil affairs programme to facilitate reconstruction in areas where there are gaps in mainstream projects. It also provides expatriate–led and Iraqi–manned Reconstruction Liaison Teams to monitor the progress of reconstruction work subcontracted to Iraqi building companies.

In separate contracts, Aegis is engaged in providing security protection to the inquiry into alleged corruption in the Oil for Food program. It provided security support to the UN Electoral Assistance Division (UNEAD) and the Independent High Electoral Commission (IECI) facilitating both the constitutional referendum to proceed in October 2005 and the general election in December 2005.

In May 2011, it was announced that U.S. Military is to pull out of Baghdad, in the air and ground, and to be replaced by eight companies including Aegis and DynCorp International to take over in the air.