U.S. military contractor announced Tuesday that it won a contract for up to $48.6 million that will help support a U.S. contingent to the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Haiti. http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2013/04/09/world/americas/ap-cb-haiti-military-contractor.html?ref=world  DynCorp International received the contract from the U.S. State Department’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs. It will recruit and finance up to 100 officers to join the U.N.’s police. The DynCorp task order has a one-year base period with three, one-year options that carries a total value of $48.6 million.
The U.N. mission of now more than 9,000 troops has been in Haiti since 2004 with the goal of providing stability following the US ouster that year of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.