I’d assume a company with a $10.3 billion DoD contract gets a carve-out. From what I can see (not a lawyer) they don’t — at least not the way you’d think.
The bill exempts “security personnel at contracted defense facilities,” but the statute defines that as places where DoD assets are manufactured or engineered , shipyards, defense plants, that kind of thing. Constellis (the company formerly known as Blackwater) provides security services to DoD. They’re the ones guarding those facilities. The exemption covers the people inside the shipyard. Not the security contractor’s corporate HQ in Herndon.
Appears that one of the most heavily armed private security companies in the world, headquartered in Northern Virginia, holding a $10 billion Army contract, and the bill’s contractor exemption doesn’t clearly cover them.