In July, the U.S. government announced it was building a 5,000-person detention camp in El Paso, Texas, and that the Virginia-based firm Acquisition Logistics LLC had been awarded $232 million in Army funds to build the facility.
The decision to grant such a large contract to a relatively unknown company has drawn scrutiny in recent weeks, as the Pentagon refused to release the contract or to explain why it selected the company among over a dozen other bidders.
