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Archives by date > 2013 > October > 28th

Private Firms to Transport and Store US Military Members’ Private Vehicles

Oct 28, 2013 17:30 UTC

Latest updates[?]: Updates since 2011 include contract totals and a new $300+ million winner, with a possible risk profile.
Private Vehicle Storage

Private Vehicle Storage
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When a military family is moved abroad, what happens to their cars? That just one of the private vehicle dilemmas confronting the US military on a regular basis, as approximately 650,000 service members, family members, and civilian employees are moved each year within and beyond the USA.

American Auto Logistics (AAL) in Park Ridge, NJ operates 40 vehicle process centers and 8 long-term storage facilities in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. AAL performs logistics functions required to move privately-owned vehicles belonging to US military members from the USA to destinations OCONUS (Outside the CONtinental United States). These functions include processing, booking and shipment via GDS ocean carriers; customs inspections and agriculture clearances; and drayage and storage of the vehicles. Contracts from 2003 include:

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NSA Spying Pervasive Throughout Europe, Though Maybe Not So Secret to Government Leaders

Oct 28, 2013 11:25 UTC

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NSA Euro Saga

  • According to El Mundo [in Spanish], the NSA proceeded in Spain to the same sort of spying denounced by France and Germany last week.

  • Meanwhile the Süddeutsche Zeitung claims [in German] that not only the French government knew of at least some of the NSA’s activities, but they even had a partnership in place with the Five Eyes countries through a program dubbed “Lustre”. In a TV interview with TV5 [in French] on Sunday, Foreign Trade minister Nicole Brick refreshingly dropped the pretense that France is neither spying nor aware that its allies do so too.

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