The Obama Administration has arranged to provide—free of charge—several customized special-operations military vessels to the Government of Kenya,
U.S. Trade & Aid Monitor has learned. Finalization of those plans came exactly one week prior to today’s explosion in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi.
Although officially it remains unclear whether the blast was the result of a utility problem or the work of terrorists, Reuters reports that a witness saw a man place a suspicious package in business-district building right before the explosion.
The U.S. Naval Sea Systems Command is awarding a noncompetitive “sole-source contract to United States Marine Incorporated (USMI) of Gulfport, Miss to provide five (5) 11M Naval Special Warfare Rigid Inflatable Boats,†according to a presolicitation notice that NAVSEC uploaded to a federal contracting database May 21.
Continued at U.S. Trade & Aid Monitor.