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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.

FRANCE 31/10/2007

Paris- A War Room to Sell Weapons to India 

Without waiting for a complete overhaul of France’s system to [...]

UNITED STATES 19/07/2007

Lobbyist for ArmorGroup 

Like most of its American competitors have done, the private [...]

FRANCE 10/05/2007

Sofema Seeking a Managing Director 

The chief executive of the French armaments concern Sofema, Bernard Norlain, didn’t win over his board in late April when [...]

UNITED KINGDOM 22/03/2007

EADS in Push for its Air Tankers 

The Air Tanker consortium led by EADS is relying on the lobbying concern Politics International to help it land a gigantic contract to suppy in-flight refuelling aircraft to the Royal Air Force. [...]

UNITED STATES 22/02/2007

NRO in Standoff with Suppliers 

The latest issue of the Journal of Public Inquiry, a [...]

UNITED STATES 08/02/2007

McConnell's Investments 

Along with his confirmation hearing before the Senate on Feb. [...]

UNITED STATES 11/01/2007

Sensor Industry Shifting from Military to Civil Side  Free

Still largely dependent on military programs, the American sensor industry is increasingly finding civil applications for its goods, particularly in the homeland security field. [...]

UNITED STATES 11/01/2007

Thomas Pickering 

After serving for five years as Boeing's "foreign minister," so [...]

UNITED KINGDOM 11/01/2007

Firm Probing EADS Deal in Libya 

Intelligence Online understands an unidentified British business intelligence firm is actively examining contracts under negotiation between EADS and Libya. [...]

UNITED STATES 07/12/2006

CIA's Private Network to Carry its Prisoners  Free

In a report published on Nov. 16, the European Parliament shed light on a huge network of private companies allegedly employed by the CIA to covertly transport its prisoners. [...]

UNITED STATES 19/10/2006

First Laser Gun Trials 

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

UNITED STATES EUROPE 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 [...]