Academi, formerly known as Blackwater and Blackwater Worldwide, is an American private military contractor founded on December 26, 1997, [2] by former Navy SEAL officer Erik Prince. [3][4] It was renamed Xe Services in 2009, and was again renamed to Academi in 2011, after it was acquired by a group of private investors. [5] .

Blackwater USA began in 1997 by Al Clark and Erik Prince. They started out as a private security firm providing training support to law enforcement, the justice department, and military organizations and received their first contract from the United States government in 2000 after the bombing of the USS Cole.

Blackwater was a US based private security company that had contracts with the government and operated in Iraq and Afghanistan. Blackwater's employees were all former military personell and their job title while providing security services was PMC's or Private Military Contractors.

2024年5月25日 · Discover the complex history of Blackwater, a premier private military contractor, its controversies, and its transformation into Constellis Holdings, a global security company.

On Sept. 16, 2007, a convoy of Blackwater contractors guarding State Department employees entered a crowded square near the Mansour district in Baghdad, Iraq. But versions of what caused the...

2020年12月23日 · In 2014, four former government contractors who worked for Blackwater Worldwide, a security firm founded by Erik Prince — an ally of Trump and the brother of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos —...

2020年12月23日 · WASHINGTON (AP) — US President Donald Trump on Tuesday pardoned four former government contractors convicted in a 2007 massacre in Baghdad that left more than a dozen Iraqi civilians dead and...

4 天之前 · Prince’s statement follows a Tuesday POLITICO report that showed prominent military contractors led by Prince pitched the president’s advisers a $25 billion offer to execute mass deportations ...

2015年4月13日 · One former employee of the private Blackwater Worldwide security company was sentenced Monday to life in prison and three others to 30 years each behind bars for their roles in a 2007 mass...

Blackwater Construction Group is a General Contracting and Construction Management firm seeking to offer our clients with exceptional service by developing strong relationships with and respect of our employees subcontractors, suppliers and clients.