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The US aeronautical company, which moved its headquarters from Seattle to Chicago in 2001, is in both the civil and military sectors, like its European rival Airbus. At the heart of the US defence industry, Boeing has powerful contacts in Capitol Hill and at the White House.

UNITED STATES 19/10/2006

First Laser Gun Trials

Boeing Integrated Defense Systems has just begun trials of its [...]

UNITED STATESEUROPE 05/10/2006

BoostAero, Global Standards for Supply Chain Management Free

Standards for supply chain management between suppliers and customers in the aeronautics and defense industries, worked out as part of the BoostAero project, constitute the first link in a completely digitized system for world markets. [...]

RUSSIA 21/09/2006

Moscow - Small-Scale French Corruption with Big Results

A case of corruption at the French consulate in Moscow [...]

UNITED KINGDOM 21/09/2006

The MoD’s Lobbying Arm

A recent contract that Saudi Arabia awarded to the Eurofighter consortium for 72 Typhoon fighters resulted largely from the efforts of the Defence Export Services Organisation, a unit in the Ministry of Defence (MoD) that pushes British military exports. [...]

UNITED STATES 07/09/2006

Intelligenxia Hires Ex- CIA Man

The CIA’s former chief information officer, Alan Wade, has just taken up work as a senior adviser to the small [...]

UNITED STATES 24/08/2006

The Border Bonanzas

The U.S. defense giants Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Boeing which are competing for a huge, $2 billion contract [...]

UNITED STATES 22/06/2006

Israeli Arms Lobby in Higher Gear

Israeli defense companies long established in the United States are actively campaigning for an easing of American controls on their military exports. [...]

Spotlight SAUDI ARABIA 08/06/2006

Riyadh lays down the new rules

Saudi Arabia’s king, Abdallah bin Abdulaziz, and his leading ministers are now persuaded that the huge amount of illicit money generated in the 1980s and 1990s by big armaments contracts became a major factor in the political destabilization of their [...]

Spotlight UNITED STATES 24/05/2006

New Roundabout Ways to Pay Bribes

Since the OECD Convention against bribing foreign officials was signed in 1997, multi-national corporations - and particularly those in the defense industry - have found new ways of legally paying go-betweens and decision-makers in the countries in which they operate. [...]

UNITED KINGDOM 24/05/2006

Autonomy Teams Up with Cognos

The British information management company Autonomy has just formed a [...]

UNITED STATES 20/04/2006

Washington - SAIC Invests in Geospatial Branch

Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) has just bought out the [...]

UNITED KINGDOM 06/04/2006

Privatizing Fighter Pilot Training

Britain’s Ministry of Defence (MoD) is intent on persuading European participants in Lockheed Martin’s Joint Strike Fighter program to farm out training of the future aircraft’s pilots to the private sector. [...]

FRANCE 06/04/2006

Wide Brief for CTO at EADS

The European aerospace and defense giant EADS is due later this month to name a chief technology officer who will [...]

UNITED STATES 23/03/2006

Dubai Firm Seeks Assurance

To avoid suffering the same woes as its fellow Dubai [...]

UNITED STATES 09/03/2006

Cohen Group’s Connections in India

Former U.S. defense secretary William Cohen, who runs the Cohen Group consultancy, was among the 25 corporate chiefs who accompanied [...]

UNITED STATES 23/02/2006

Tucker Eskew

Former director of the Office of Global Communications at the [...]

UNITED STATESFRANCE 09/02/2006

Keynectis vs Verisign Again

The U.S. Verisign group and France’s Keynectis are once again battling for a key market: the SITA group’s digital certification platform. [...]

UNITED STATES 09/02/2006

An Up-Market Sigint 737

Boeing has just announced the launch of a 737 SIGINT aircraft for both the American and international markets. [...]

UNITED STATES 09/02/2006

How NGA Works for the FBI

The U.S. space intelligence agency has developed a web-based cartographic interface named Palanterra to enhance homeland security in the U.S. [...]

UNITED STATES 26/01/2006

Blimps an Alternative to UAVs?

Blimps are coming into wider use in civil and military surveillance operations because they are cheap and easy to carry around. [...]