Engility, LLC

Material Facts

• Engility is the successor in interest to Titan.
• Titan held and performed contracts for translation services at Abu Ghraib prison, Iraq.
• Iraqi plaintiffs sued Engility and/or Titan alleging that Engility employees participated in abuse of plaintiffs at Abu Ghraib.
• One lawsuit was defended and subsequently settled.
• The government disallowed the costs of defending and settling that lawsuit.
• The government and Engility conducted discovery concerning material provided by CENTCOM in March 2018 relating to investigations of detainee abuse at Abu Ghraib.
• The discovery material consisted of approximately one-third of a terabyte of unorganized and unlabeled information that mixed unclassified and classified material.
• The underlying lawsuit involved allegations by 72 Iraqi plaintiffs.
• Engility characterized the number of detainees who passed through Abu Ghraib during its translation performance as thousands.
• The contracting officer's final decision stated that the alleged abuse was out-of-scope and constituted a breach of contract if proven.

Parties

Appellant

Engility, LLC

Contract Number

DASCO 1-99-D-OOO 1; W911 W4-04-D-0005