Explosives experts from Janus Global Operations have cleared a grain processing facility in Tal Afar, Iraq, months after the Iraqi Army drove out Islamic State of Iraq and Syria fighters from the area. The company said Wednesday its teams found and deactivated more than 70 improvised explosive devices, rockets, grenades, mortar and other weapons, and cleared more than 192,000 […] More

Janus Global Operations, under a U.S. State Department effort, has cleared two schools in the Iraqi city of Mosul of explosives stored by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. The Lenoir, Tenn.-based company said Thursday its deployed teams removed more than 700 tons of rubble from the Al Muthana Boys School and Al-Mansour Boys […] More

Janus Global Operations has received a two-year contract to provide risk management and security services to a life support and logistics provider that operates at an oilfield facility located in southern Iraq. Janus said Thursday it will also manage a team that aims to help secure the client’s transportation operations across the region as part of […] More

Janus Global Operations has been selected to collaborate with AECOM‘s URS Federal Services business to deliver range support services to the U.S. Air Force. Janus Global said Thursday it will perform work through a potential 16-year, $3.6 billion mission and target management services contract the Air Force awarded to URS. Tasks under the cost-plus-award-fee contract encompass […] More

A European Union organization has selected Janus Global Operations to provide risk management and security services in support of efforts to boost maritime civilian law enforcement in Somalia. JGO said Wednesday it will deliver security management, regional daily incident alerts, security risk assessment analysis, close protection teams and hostile environment awareness training to the EU Regional Maritime […] More

Janus Global Operations will provide security and risk management services in support of a Malaysia-based international oil company’s central Iraq operations under a two-year contract. JGO said Wednesday it will assign 600 employees to perform contract work to support the customer’s personnel as part of oil exploration activities in central Iraq. Matt Kaye, CEO at JGO, stated that […] More

Janus Global Operations has trained a group of Ukrainian military and defense personnel on landmine action quality management strategies as part of a two-month project the company carried out for a nonprofit mine-clearance organization. HALO Trust collaborated with JGO to develop training curriculum that encompassed  manual and mechanical techniques for battle area clearance, explosive ordnance disposal, mine detection and humanitarian […] More

U.S. Army Europe‘s Joint Multinational Training Group-Ukraine has selected Janus Global Operations to carry out an $8.4 million unexploded ordnance clearance project  in Yavoriv, Ukraine. Janus said Friday it aims to dispose of explosives, munitions and other hazardous materials within a nearly seven-square-mile area at the Yavoriv International Peacekeeping and Security Center training range. U.S. military personnel conduct various training […] More

Janus Global Operations will collaborate with the Army Corps of Engineers on a project to manage hazardous waste and materials at a U.S. Army base located in South Korea. The company said Thursday that it will deploy technical staff with knowledge on hazardous waste management to support Camp Humphreys’ directorate of public works as well as help the installation meet environmental compliance […] More

Janus Global Operations has destroyed or recovered more than 440,000 landmines and unexploded ordnance items the company found throughout conducted projects in multiple countries and conflict areas in 2016. JGO said Friday that it has swept approximately 36 square miles of landmine and unexploded ordnance last year on behalf of the U.S. government, foreign allies and the firm’s commercial […] More

Gov. Sohaib Alrawi of Anbar Province in Iraq has acknowledged Janus Global Operations’ mine clearing efforts in the province through a Twitter post. Alrawi also recognized through the social media post the training support the company has provided to Iraqis to help deal with mines and other improvised explosive devices left by the Islamic State militant organization, […] More

Janus Global Operations has identified and destroyed 1,246 landmines and other unexploded ordnance in support of the Iraqi-Kurdistan Mine Action Agency’s demining project in Kurdistan, Iraq. JGO said Thursday its explosives detection teams under the Sterling Global Operations unit conducted the demining task in the Erbil, Duhok and Sulaymaniyah provinces of Kurdistan. The company added the […] More