Pentagon Calls SOS for Foreign Media Work

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STRATCOM, the U.S. military's Strategic Operations Command, has awarded its new contract for foreign media monitoring to SOS International. Perennial Pentagon favorite the Rendon Group formerly held the contract. SOS will track "foreign press in several languages across Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, Asia and Mexico with a focus on the so-called Global War on Terrorism," reports O'Dwyer's PR Daily. The contract is worth up to $67 million through 2010. SOS "was one of four companies awarded a multi-million contract with the FBI last year to train and provide role players to support the Bureau's nationwide counterintelligence training program." It's also worked for the United Nations, providing "anti-money laundering training" in Nigeria; for Kellogg Brown and Root, providing linguists; and for the National Security Agency.