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L-3 Communications Protests Army Translation Award To DynCorp

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Tuesday, December 18th, 2007

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By Ann Roosevelt L-3 Communications [LLL] yesterday filed a formal protest with the Government Accountability Office (GAO) challenging the Army's award of a $4.6 billion contract for translators and linguists to Global Linguist Solutions (GLS). GLS is a partnership formed by DynCorp International [DCP] and McNeil Technologies. L-3 does not comment on protests, nor does GAO. This is the second GAO protest over the work from L-3, which originally held the contract. L-3 initially protested the Army's selection of GLS…

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