The largest engineering firm in the Kansas City metropolitan area. Founded in 1915 in Kansas City, MO it is now headquartered in Overland Park, Kansas[1] It is a global engineering, procurement, construction (EPC) and consulting company specializing in infrastructure development in power, oil and gas, water, telecommunications, government, mining, data centers, smart cities and banking and finance markets.[2] Black & Veatch Special Project Corp. was awarded $198.7 million DTRA contracts to build and operate bio-laboratories in Ukraine (under two 5-year contracts in 2008 and 2012 totaling $128.5 million), as well as in Germany, Azerbaijan, Cameroon, Thailand, Ethiopia, Vietnam and Armenia.
During a March 2022 press conference about 2 weeks into the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Russian Army’s Chief of the Radiation, Chemical and Biological Defense Forces, Igor Kirillov, mentioned the private American company called Black & Veatch as being partnered with the Pentagon on secret Ukrainian biolab projects. “A firm affiliated to the Defense Department, (Black and Veatch above all others) are involved in the implementation of the projects,” he said.
In 2015, an Infowars article titled, “Why Does Pentagon Need Laboratories In Ukraine?” touched on Black & Veatch’s involvement in the biolabs. Biolabs operated under the Pentagon’s Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) program from 2008 to 2017 were constructed and operated by Black & Veatch following an estimated $215.6 million of work.
The US corporation brags of having worked with the Pentagon since 2003. The DOD Black & Veatch project included the building of labs in Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Cameroon, Thailand, Ethiopia, Vietnam and Armenia. In 2014, a firm called Metabiota, which specializes in detecting, tracking, and analyzing potential disease outbreaks, signed an $18.4 million federal contract as a subcontractor for Black & Veatch in Georgia and Ukraine. The pair even share an office in Kiev, according to a job advertisement posted by Black & Veatch.
In a 2016 meeting in Lviv, Ukraine, representatives of Black & Veatch and Metabiota discussed biological security, safety and surveillance with representatives of Ukraine, Poland and the United States.
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