Subcontractor Charges Racial Discrimination A minority-owned subcontractor has sued DynCorp International, charging the prime forced it out of projects in Iraq and Afghanistan in actions that “were motivated by racial animus” against the company’s African American owners and employees. Worldwide Network Services LLC of Washington filed the suit in D.C. federal court. The lawsuit alleges that WWNS employees were targets of racial epithets and some of them were forced to leave Iraq. WWNS was an IT subcontractor on DynCorp’s State Department security contracts. A Dyncorp spokesman branded the charge of racial discrimination “outrageous” and said WWNS was dropped as a subcontractor because of poor performance, the Washington Post reported. Another DynCorp subcontractor, EDO Corp., was also named as a defendant. The company declined comment. In its court filing, WWNS charged that DynCorp used the minority firm to bolster its bid for the contracts, then embarked on a campaign of harassment because it wanted to take work away from WWNS and give it to EDO. The suit alleged that one DynCorp executive told WWNS employees they had been hired only because they were black and another DynCorp executive used a racial epithet in referring to a WWNS manager. The subcontractor charged that some of its employees were barred from meetings and denied identity cards so they could not do their work. The DynCorp spokesman told the Post that its State Department customer had been complaining about WWNS’s poor performance. WWNS officials told the Post that Dyncorp subcontracts accounted for about 95 percent of the company’s revenue and that the firm was barely hanging on. Founder and president Walter L. Gray Jr. said he hopes the business will survive “with a lot of prayer.”