MOYOCK, Va., Nov. 19 (UPI) -- A deal has been struck that will allow security contractor Blackwater Worldwide to operate training vacilities at its Virginia-North Carolina training camp.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 7 (UPI) -- In the wake of Barack Obama's election victory many American private military and security contractors are wondering what their future will be under President Obama. It is probably better than they imagine.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 (UPI) -- The news that Blackwater Worldwide is offering its services to shippers plagued by pirates -- an issue recently in the headlines, due to the continuing attacks on ships off Somalia -- has set the media twittering about the latest domain to be outsourced to private military contractors.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 17 (UPI) -- The State Department has outsourced henhouse security to a fox, giving a U.S. security contractor the job of investigating possible crimes committed by other security contractors working for the United States in Iraq.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 19 (UPI) -- The U.S. Defense Department has issued tighter rules for security contractors in Iraq aimed at reducing or preventing needless civilian deaths.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 18 (UPI) -- Say whatever you want about Blackwater Worldwide -- and hardly a day goes by when something isn't being said about it -- it does not put all its eggs in one basket. Long before the company's recent announcement that it would seek to de-emphasize its personal security work in the future, it had created a diversified corporate structure. To use military terminology, it is a combined arms operation.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 16 (UPI) -- Six Blackwater Worldwide contractors have been notified they are targets of a U.S. investigation into the killing of 17 Iraqis, The Washington Post reports.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 (UPI) -- The Wall Street Journal ran an opinion piece on July 29 calling for the use of private security contractors to help transform the 9,000 or so African Union soldiers in Darfur into a more effective U.N. peacekeeping force. The op-ed, titled "Mercenaries for Darfur," suggested using personnel from Blackwater Worldwide.

WASHINGTON, July 29 (UPI) -- Government officials were misled by Blackwater in order to obtain lucrative contracts, U.S. Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., said.