Essential Personnel LLC, and Go Beyond LLC. Headquarters GLS is headquartered in Herndon, VA with operating hubs in Kuwait, Bahrain, and Kosovo. Products, Services, and Performance Products and Services As of September 2011, GLS offers translation and interpretation in the following countries: Iraq Kuwait The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Qatar Bahrain The United Arab Emirates Jordan Oman Yemen United States (multiple locations) As of September 2011, GLS has linguistic capabilities in the following languages: Albanian Arabic Bengali Dari Hebrew Hindi Indonesian Japanese Kurdish Malayalam Nepali Pashtu Persian Punjabi Russian Serbian Singhalese Spanish Portuguese Tagalog Thai Turkish Turkoman Urdu Performance In August 2008, GLS was the subject of a hearing in front of the Commission on Wartime Contracting in Iraq and Afghanistan (CWC) regarding questionable costs and poor management of the contract after its award in February 2008. When auditors went into Iraq to examine the performance of GLS, they "found about $5 million being spent on three-bedroom apartments and automobile for individual contractor employees. At the same time, the company was slow getting linguists into Iraq." The CWC released its final report after the investigations on August 31, 2011 entitled "Transforming Wartime Contracting: Controlling Costs, Reducing Risks". An improvement from past performance, GLS earned its second consecutive 100% award fee score on the INSCOM contract in the 3rd quarter 2010. GLS has also reported that it has received its 6th consecutive "outstanding" award fee from the government in Q1 2011. In 2013 US Linguists, which were working for GLS in Kuwait through a Kuwaiti sponsorship company, faced a lot of difficulties because of a dispute between GLS and the sponsorship company. As a result, for a period of time nearly 100 American civilians working as Arabic linguists on camps Buehring and Arifjan, two major Army bases in the Middle East, were unable to leave either post because they were at risk of being detained by Kuwaiti police, who have no authority inside base gates. As many as nine linguists were detained outside the gates, held in Kuwaiti cells and flown back to the U.S., according to linguists interviewed and their employer. The situation was resolved. In 2015 GLS has started supporting the US Department of Defense cooperation with Ukraine, also using a Romanian Subcontractor to hire local national linguists. There are significant discrepancies between linguists' job offers and reality (no insurance, lack of gear, poor living conditions etc.). Nevertheless, having