CNTPO

Looks like even though we are broke, the war on drugs has a car load of $$$. The U.S. Department of Defense Counter-Narcoterrorism Technology Program Office (CNTPO) has awarded a contract(s) worth $3B for the following areas.

Estimated MAIDIQ ceiling: A shared ceiling is established for each domain MAIDIQ. The value of each domain ceiling is:

Operations, Logistics, and Minor Construction: $950M
Command, Control, Communications, Information Detection & Monitoring (C31DM): $875M
Training: $975M
Program & Programmatic Support: $240M

ARINC has a nice little racket going on as being the prime on the contract & then handing out the sub's to the various PMC's.  Even the infamous Blackwater.

Danger Room has this to say;

For the vast majority of people who’ve never heard of CNTPO, the organization answers to the Pentagon’s Special Operations Low-Intensity Conflict Directorate, within the Counternarcotics and Global Threats portfolio. It’s tucked away so deep, bureaucratically speaking, that it doesn’t actually have an office at the Pentagon.

The sprawling contract, ostensibly designed to stop drug-funded terrorism, seeks security firms for missions like “train[ing] Azerbaijan Naval Commandos.” Other tasks include providing Black Hawk and Kiowa helicopter training “for crew members of the Mexican Secretariat of Public Security.” Still others involve building “anti-terrorism/force protection enhancements” for the Pakistani border force in the tribal areas abutting Afghanistan.

The Defense Department’s Counter Narco-Terrorism Program Office has packed all these tasks and more inside a mega-contract for security firms. The office, known as CNTPO, is all but unknown, even to professional Pentagon watchers. It interprets its counternarcotics mandate very, very broadly, leaning heavily on its implied counterterrorism portfolio. And it’s responsible for one of the largest chunks of money provided to mercenaries in the entire federal government.

CNTPO is “essentially planning on outsourcing a global counternarcotics and counterterrorism program over the next several years,” says Nick Schwellenbach, director of investigations for the Project on Government Oversight, “and it’s willing to spend billions to do so.

Hell, they even had there own industry day.

So these types of agencies will use the war on drugs to expand their empires & pocket books at the hands of the taxpayer and the blood of innocents.