Beside their connection to big thugs/criminals such as Cheney, they pay lobbyists in the senate and congress so they protect their evil interests. But, almost all companies in the US do that (unfortunately), companies try to have "some" ethics and professionalism; however, KBR does not have any, the company is in deep troubles; they even can not design technologies that MW Kellogg used to have in the past decades, the company lost those engineers who deserted to other EPC companies. KBR tried to have some engineers but got corrupted again by having managers from India (such as Pritham Ramamurthy, Kieran Shah, Bharat Bansal, etc.) and those think of no one but Indians, they pick them from universities while they know nothing about the engineering practice.