Defense News – Contractor industry groups are set to meet Friday with U.S. government agencies, as companies try to help their former employees in Afghanistan find a way to leave the country.
Three industry associations — the International Stability Operations Association, the National Defense Industrial Association and the Professional Services Council — are slated to meet with Pentagon, State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development representatives.
Julian Setian, the chief executive of contractor SOS International, a services contractor that first started working in Afghanistan in 2002, said he’s received no fewer than a dozen emails in the last few days from former Afghan employees and vendors who want help getting out of the country.
“Lots of people right now within the company are receiving stray emails from desperate Afghans,” he said.
SOSi has over the years helped about 400 employees or vendors apply for visas. He said about 15 of those have, after moving to the United States, become employees at company headquarters in Reston, Virginia.
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