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In explaining its purpose, Prince stated: "We are trying to do for the national security apparatus what FedEx did for the Postal Service". History 1997: Blackwater USA īlackwater USA was formed on Decem by Al Clark and Erik Prince in North Carolina, to provide training support to military and law enforcement organizations. 1.3 2002–2007: Blackwater Security Company.In 2014, Academi merged with Triple Canopy, a subsidiary of Constellis Group. In 2013, its subsidiary, International Development Solutions, received an approximately $92 million contract for State Department security guards.
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Since 2003, it has provided services to the Central Intelligence Agency. Īcademi provides contract security services to the United States federal government. In 2007, it received widespread notoriety for the Nisour Square massacre in Baghdad, when a group of its employees killed 17 Iraqi civilians and injured 20, for which four guards were convicted in the United States but later pardoned on Decemby President Donald Trump. Security management, full-service risk management consultingĪcademi is an American private military company founded on Decem by former Navy SEAL officer Erik Prince as Blackwater, renamed Xe Services in 2009 and known as Academi since 2011 after it was acquired by a group of private investors. Law enforcement training, logistics, close quarter training, and security services