As the number of U.S. military deaths and injuries continues to rise, the Defense Department has in recent weeks awarded or is considering contracts to provide services related to the care of the wounded and dead, according to government contract documents reviewed by The Intercept.

For example, the U.S. Air Force announced on Friday that it had awarded a new contract to provide services related to the care of the bodies of fallen service members at Robins Air Force Base in Georgia.

The contract covers a full range of services, including the transportation of bodies, their storage in a morgue, embalming, dressing, embalming or cremation, and funeral services.

The Air Force last week began reviewing local companies for a similar contract at Aviano Air Base in Italy, a key U.S. support base in the war against Iran.

Public relations offices at Robbins and Aviano did not respond to The Intercept’s questions about the contracts.

The U.S. Army also announced last week that it was seeking a contractor to provide administrative services for the military’s dead and wounded at Fort Knox, Kentucky. The services include recording and tracking casualty records, processing the status of dead or wounded soldiers, and administrative services.

More than 90 percent of recent casualties have been U.S. forces.

Fort Knox has also played a role in supporting the Iran war. Corporal Benjamin Pennington, a 26-year-old Kentucky soldier, died in March from injuries sustained in an Iranian attack on a U.S. base in Saudi Arabia.

He was the first Kentucky soldier to die in the war, and his body was flown back to the United States through Goodman Air Force Base in Fort Knox.

Six U.S. soldiers killed in Iran’s invasion of Kuwait that same month were also from the U.S. Army’s 1st Regional Support Command; A unit headquartered at Fort Knox.