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| name = DynCorp International Inc.
| logo = [[File:DynCorp_International_logo.png|200px]]
| type = [[Privately held company|Private]]
| foundation = 14 January{{Start date|1946 |01|14|df=y|br=y}}<br><small>incorporated in Delaware as <br> California Eastern Aviation </small>
| defunct = {{End date|2021|04|21|df=y}}
| fate = Acquired by [[Amentum (company)|Amentum]]
| successor = [[Amentum (company)|Amentum]]
| location = [[McLean, Virginia]] (2013)<ref>{{cite news | author = Censer, Marjorie | date = August 5, 2013 | title = DynCorp to Consolidate Headquarters in Tysons Corner | newspaper = [[The Washington Post]] | url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-business/post/dyncorp-to-consolidate-headquarters-in-tysons-corner/2013/08/02/987f324e-fb8c-11e2-9bde-7ddaa186b751_blog.html | access-date = February 25, 2017 }}</ref>
| area_served = Worldwide
| key_people = George Krivo, ([[Chief executive officer|CEO]]) (2017)<ref>{{cite journal | author = Hoover, Mark | date = June 23, 2015 | title = DynCorp Finds New CEO | journal = [[Washington Technology]] | url = http://washingtontechnology.com/articles/2015/06/23/dyncorp-new-ceo.aspx | url-status = dead | access-date = February 25, 2017 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150624235059/http://washingtontechnology.com/articles/2015/06/23/dyncorp-new-ceo.aspx | archive-date = June 24, 2015 }}</ref>
| industry = Military contractor, service-focused
| num_employees = 14,000 (2007)<ref name="incr_home">{{cite report | author = Rosenkranz, Robert B. & DynCorp Intl. Staff | date = June 19, 2007 | title = Statement of Robert B. Rosenkranz, President, Government Services Division, DynCorp International before the / Subcommittee on Management, Investigation, and Oversight… / Hearing on "Increasing the Number of U.S. Border Patrol Agents" [6 pages] | url = http://homeland.house.gov/SiteDocuments/20070619152426-71242.pdf | location = Washington, DC | publisher = United States House of Representatives, Committee on Homeland Security | access-date = February 25, 2017 | url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070726005209/http://homeland.house.gov/SiteDocuments/20070619152426-71242.pdf |archive-date=July 26, 2007 }}{{primary source inline|date=February 2017}}</ref>{{better source needed|date=February 2017}}
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'''DynCorp International Inc.''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|d|aɪ|n|k|ɔr|p}}),<ref>That is, as in "dine" and "corp". See {{cite conference |title= [employee town hall meeting] | author= Lanese, Herb [CEO] |date= January 2007 |location= Fort Worth, TX }}{{full citation needed|date=February 2017}}{{Original research inline|date=February 2017}}</ref> formally '''DynCorp International''', was an American [[private military contractor]].<ref>{{cite journal | author = DealBook Staff | date = April 10, 2010 | title = Cerberus to Buy DynCorp for $1.5 Billion | journal =[[The New York Times]] | url = https://dealbook.nytimes.com/2010/04/12/cerberus-to-buy-dyncorp-for-1-5-billion/ | access-date = February 25, 2017 }}</ref> StartedStarting as an aviation company, the company also provided flight operations support, training and mentoring, international development, intelligence training and support, contingency operations, security, and operations and maintenance of land vehicles.<ref>{{cite journal | author = Corrin, Amber | date = June 14, 2011 | title = DynCorp Cracks Top 20 with $3B in Prime Contracts | journal = [[Washington Technology]] | url = http://washingtontechnology.com/articles/2011/06/06/dyncorp-top-100-government-contractors.aspx | access-date = February 25, 2017 }}</ref> DynCorp received more than 96% of its more than $3 billion in annual revenue from the U.S. federal government.<ref name="Soldiers of Good Fortune">{{cite journal | author = Yeoman, Barry | title=Soldiers of Good Fortune | journal = Mother Jones | date= June 1, 2003 | url=https://www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2003/05/ma_365_01.html | access-date=May 8, 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://washingtontechnology.com/toplists/top-100-lists/2011.aspx |title=2011 Top 100 |publisher=Washington Technology |access-date=2012-01-21}}</ref> The corporate headquarters were in an unincorporated part of [[Fairfax County, Virginia|Fairfax County]] near [[Falls Church, Virginia]], while the company's contracts were managed from its office at [[Fort Worth Alliance Airport|Alliance Airport]] in [[Fort Worth, Texas]]. DynCorp provided services for the [[U.S. military]] in several [[theater (warfare)|theater]]s, including [[Bolivia]], [[Bosnia and Herzegovina|Bosnia]], [[Somalia]], [[Angola]], [[Haiti]], [[Colombia]], [[Kosovo]] and [[Kuwait]].<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.princeton.edu/~jpia/pdf2004/Chapter%202.pdf| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20041221214202/http://www.princeton.edu/~jpia/pdf2004/Chapter%202.pdf| url-status=dead| archive-date=2004-12-21| title=Outsourcing Post-Conflict Operations| publisher=Princeton University| year=2004| access-date=2006-11-11}}</ref> It also provided much of the security for [[Afghanistan|Afghan]] president [[Hamid Karzai]]'s presidential guard and trained much of the police forces of Iraq and Afghanistan.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13600| title=IRAQ: Misjudgments Marred U.S. Plans for Iraqi Police| publisher=CorpWatch| date=May 21, 2006| access-date=2006-11-11 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060807052116/http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=13600 |archive-date=August 7, 2006}}</ref> DynCorp was also hired to assist recovery in [[Louisiana]] and neighboring areas after [[Hurricane Katrina]].<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/13/AR2006031301777_pf.html| title=Storm-Wracked Parish Considers Hired Guns| first=Renae| last=Merle|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]| date=2006-03-14| pages=A01| access-date=2006-05-21}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0328/p01s02-ussc.html?s=t5| title=Katrina survivors play defense against looting| first=Patrik| last=Jonsson|newspaper=[[The Christian Science Monitor]]|date=2006-03-28|access-date=2006-12-15}}</ref> The company held one contract on every round of competition since receiving the first [[Contract Field Teams]] contract in 1951.
In 2020, Dyncorp was bought by [[Germantown, Maryland]]-based defense support services conglomerate [[Amentum (company)|Amentum]]. On April 21, 2021, the DynCorp name was discontinued, and employees and services transferred to Amentum.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2020-11-16|title=Amentum Closes DynCorp International Acquisition|url=https://www.amentum.com/2020/11/16/amentum-closes-dyncorp-acquisition/|access-date=2021-08-18|website=Amentum|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite tweet|number=1384893464064692224|user=DynCorpIntl|title=#LastDay! We thank you all for your support through the years with your likes, shares, and comments. This is not a goodbye; we are just moving to Amentum. See you on the Amentum side! @amentum_corp #defense #aviation #landsystems #govcon}}</ref>
==History==
===California Eastern Aviation (1946–1961)===
[[File:Lockheed_1049H_N6931C_(4815952906).jpg|thumb|left|[[Lockheed L-1049]], [[Oakland Airport|Oakland]], 1957]]
'''California Eastern Aviation''' was incorporated in Delaware on January 14, 1946. It operated as a [[common carrier]] from then until 1948, flying freight between east and west coasts, one of the largest domestic freight operators of the time. Unfortunately, this was not profitable, and the company entered bankruptcy in May 1948, ceasing common carrier activities and leasing out its aircraft instead, which enabled it to exit bankruptcy in 1950. It then became an uncertificated or [[Part 45 carrier|uncertificated carrier]], flying for the US military. During the 1950s its '''California Eastern Airways''' division supported the Korean War, the [[Distant Early Warning Line|DEW Line]], US activities in the Philippines, French Indochina and maintained personnel in Tokyo, Hawaii, [[Wake Island]], one of the largest such operators.{{sfn|Certification|1959|p=335–339}} The airline flew both [[Douglas DC-4]]s<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.edcoatescollection.com/ac3/Non-skeds/California%20Eastern%20Airways%20DC-4.html|website=www.edcoatescollection.com|title=California Eastern Airways Douglas DC-4 N1437V|publisher=Ed Coates Collection|language=en|access-date=15 August 2024}}</ref> and [[Lockheed Constellation]]s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.edcoatescollection.com/ac3/Non-skeds/California%20Eastern%20Lockheed%20L-1049H.html|website=www.edcoatescollection.com|title=California Eastern Aviation Lockheed L-1049H Super Constellation N6532C|publisher=Ed Coates Collection|language=en|access-date=15 August 2024}}</ref> In 1959, the carrier received interim certification as a [[supplemental air carrier]] at which time it had two divisions (the airline operation and Flight Training) and two subsidiaries, Land-Air and Air Carrier Service Corp.<ref>{{cite journal|journal=Civil Aeronautics Board Reports|volume=28|publisher=U.S. General Printing Office|location=Washington, DC|pages=242–502|date=December 1958 – February 1959|url=https://hdl.handle.net/2027/osu.32437011657877?urlappend=%3Bseq=250%3Bownerid=107302274-254|hdl=2027/osu.32437011657877|hdl-access=free |title=Large Irregular Air Carrier Investigation|ref={{sfnref|Certification|1959}}}}</ref> Land-Air held contracts performing instrumentation and R&D activities at [[White Sands Missile Range]].<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/image/84870088 ''Land-Air Instrumentation Collects Much Missile Data'', Alamogordo Daily News, 22 July 1956]</ref> But inIn 1960, California Eastern sold its airline operations to President Airlines.<ref>{{cite journal|journal=Civil Aeronautics Board Reports|volume=31|publisher=U.S. General Printing Office|location=Washington, DC|pages=965–970|date=May–September 1960|url=https://hdl.handle.net/2027/osu.32437011657679?urlappend=%3Bseq=997%3Bownerid=107305065-1001|hdl=2027/osu.32437011657679|hdl-access=free |title=California Eastern, Certificate Transfer}}</ref>
DynCorp traces its origins from two companies formed in 1946: California Eastern Airways (CEA), an air freight business, and Land-Air Inc., an aircraft maintenance company.<ref>McCarthy, Glenda. [https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-dec-14-fi-csc14-story.html Computer Sciences to Buy DynCorp]. ''[[Los Angeles Times]]''. December 14, 2002.</ref> California Eastern Airways was founded by a small group of returning [[World War II]] pilots who wanted to break into the air cargo business.<ref name=wired>Baum, Dan. [https://www.wired.com/wired/archive/11.02/gunhire.html This Gun For Hire]. ''Wired''. February 2003.</ref> They were one of the first firms to ship cargo by air, and within a year, the firm was serving both coasts.<ref name=washingtonpostcsc>Merle, Renae. [https://web.archive.org/web/20160105141836/https://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-396108.html Computer Sciences Plans to Acquire DynCorp]. ''The Washington Post''. December 14, 2002.</ref><ref name=fundinguniverse>{{cite journal | author = FU Staff [Pederson, Jay P. (Ed.)] | date = 2002 | title = DynCorp History | website = FundingUniverse.com | url = http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/DynCorp-company-History.html | access-date= February 27, 2017}} This information is derived from the following source: {{cite book | author = Pederson, Jay P. (Ed.) | date = 2002 | title = International Directory of Company Histories | chapter = DynCorp | volume = 45 | series = IDCH, Gale Reference Library (Derdak, Thomas, series ed.) | location = Farmington Hills, MI | publisher = Gale/St. James Press | isbn = 1558624635 | issn = 1557-0126 | url = https://books.google.com/books?isbn=1558624635 | access-date= February 27, 2017}} '''''Note''''', this compilation reports, to a significant degree, information self-reported by the company, and so constitutes information not strictly third-party in nature.</ref> California Eastern Airways diversified into multiple government aviation and managerial jobs, airlifted supplies for the [[Korean War]], and was responsible for the [[White Sands Missile Range]] (a client that DynCorp has retained for 50 years).<ref name=wired/><ref name=fundinguniverse/>
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