04 AUG 2008: A clarification was issued by KBR management late yesterday afternoon regarding the ban on personal cell phone use
by its OCONUS deployed employees. The clarification states "... the direction from [redacted] to all [KBR] employees in the Middle East and Central Asia is that you not use your personal cell phone. You can remove the battery and store it."
Yesterday CNN reported that the Houston-based U.S. defense contractor KBR Inc. (formerly Kellogg Brown and Root) banned its employees in Iraq from using their private cell phones. In its report CNN appears to make the assumption that the cell phone ban was the result of a "security breach" involving one of KBR's employees. That kind of a security breach is more commonly known as a breach of Operation Security (OPSEC) guidelines.
