Global Linguist Solutions (GLS) is an American Professional Services contracting company headquartered in Herndon, VA. GLS is the main provider of interpreters, translators, and linguistic support to the U.S. military effort in Iraq. Company Profile History GLS was created in 2006 as a joint venture between DynCorp International and McNeil Technologies with DynCorp as the majority partner. McNeil Technologies was acquired by AECOM Technology Corporation in August 2010 for $355M. In December 2006, GLS was awarded a $4.6 Billion, five-year contract to manage translation and interpretation services in support of the U.S. Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM), based out of Ft. Belvoir, VA. The contract provides linguistic services to the U.S. Army as well as any other U.S. government agencies supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom, now Operation New Dawn. This award of contract award was protested by the incumbent, L-3 Communications, and "was sustained by the General Accountability Office (GAO). The U.S. Army expedited a Request for Reconsideration with the GAO, and the U.S. Army INSCOM issued a revised Request for Proposal." GLS was then awarded the contract for a second time in December 2007 after a year of protests. Protests were again made by L-3 Communications, after which "the Army announced that it would take 'corrective action' including conducting a new evaluation of offerors' cost proposals and a re-evaluation of offerors' past performance, and make a new award decision. INSCOM completed this process and, on February 15, 2008, selected GLS for the award a third time." In July 2011, GLS was selected as one of six providers to compete on multiple task orders released under the $9.7 billion Department of Defense Language Interpretation Translation Enterprise (DLITE) contract. This contract, awarded by the Department of the Army, provides translation and interpretation services for personnel, equipment, supplies, facilities, transportation, tools, materials and supervision for Force Projection Operations mission areas. Leadership Chief Executive Officers and General Managers Major General James A. (Spider) Marks was the company's first CEO until his resignation in April 2009. Spider attended the U.S. Military Academy at West Point for his bachelor's degree in Engineering, followed by a Master's in International Affairs from the University of Virginia and with an MS in Theater Operations from the School of Advanced Military Studies at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. Before serving as the CEO of GLS, Spider was the Commanding General of the U.S. Army Intelligence Center