WASHINGTON: The Rendon Group has begun work on its first ground-level communications account in Iraq, a one-year Pentagon contract totaling $6.4 million, awarded on September 25.

As part of the contract, Rendon will perform communications work in Baghdad, supporting the ongoing strategic communications efforts of coalition military forces in Iraq.

The Department of Defense (DoD) said it solicited seven bids for the contract, and two were received. The DC-based PR firm will work directly with Multi-National Force-Iraq (MFN-I), the organization in ...