US Air Force

The US Air Force is overseen by the Department of Defense. It carries out general air missions such as air superiority, air support, ISR (Intelligence, Reconnaissance and Surveillance) missions as well as being responsible for nuclear dissuasion, cyberspace technology and rapid force deployment.

UNITED STATES 01/09/2005

New Information Systems for Negroponte 

National intelligence director John Negroponte is gradually patching together a [...]

UNITED STATES 28/07/2005

Private Sector's Say in Military Contract System 

Over half of the members of the Defense Acquisition Performance Assessment Panel (DAPAP) that was formed by the Pentagon in [...]

UNITED STATES 14/07/2005

EADS' republican mouthpiece 

EADS North America, the U.S. affiliate of the European defense [...]

UNITED STATES 16/06/2005

Powerful Backers for Spectrum Group 

A lobbying firm that specializes in the defense sector, Spectrum Group, and counts EADS and Robertson Aviation among its customers, [...]

UNITED STATES 19/05/2005

Dennis Reimer 

Chief-of-staff of the American army between 1995-99, general Dennis Reimer [...]

UNITED KINGDOM 31/03/2005

ArmorGroup Extends its Reach 

The British security group ArmorGroup has hired a former Raytheon executive to open an office in Washington and has hitched up with the Shi'ite Kubba clan in Iraq. [...]

UNITED STATES 03/03/2005

EADS' Charm Offensive 

A potential candidate to supply the US Air Force with an in-flight refueling aircraft – the initial tanker contract awarded [...]

UNITED STATES 03/02/2005

A Private Pentagon? 

The military electronics giant L-3 Communications has brought all of its affiliates that work directly for the Defense Department under [...]

UNITED STATES 20/01/2005

Sidney Fuchs 

Head of the TASC business unit at the Northrop Grumman [...]

UNITED STATES 02/12/2004

How Boeing Wins Influence 

Senator John McCain's inquiry into the tanker aircraft contract awarded to Boeing has shed light on how the U.S. group seeks to gain influence in Washington. [...]

UNITED STATES 05/11/2004

Titan Feasts on Defense and Intelligence Budgets  Free

Titan Corp. is continuing to flourish. It survived a takeover bid against it by Lockheed Martin in June. It is also the subject of an investigation under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. [...]

IRAQ 21/10/2004

Rise and Fall of a contractor 

Winner of a contract in June, 2003 to protect Baghdad [...]

UNITED STATES 09/09/2004

Intelligence on the Web  Free

The US Air Force is going to conduct a world-wide, communications security test during the next exercise of the Joint [...]

UNITED STATES 09/09/2004

EADS Takes On Spectrum 

In a new move to beef up its team of lobbyists, EADS North America, the American affiliate of the European [...]

UNITED STATES 08/07/2004

A Pro-Boeing Firm 

Boeing's leading in-house lobbyist in Washington, Michael Matton, has just left the aeronautics and defense group to found his own [...]

UNITED STATES 27/05/2004

Faster Firing in Offing 

Between now and 2010 the US Air Force should be [...]

UNITED STATES 09/04/2004

EADS' Lobbying Network in the U.S.  Free

To make life difficult for rival Boeing Corp., the European aerospace and defence giant EADS has beefed up its lobbying [...]

UNITED STATES 08/04/2004

New Lobbying Team for EADS 

Already represented by two U.S. lobbying concerns, Weber Shandwick and The Federalist Group, the European aeronautics and space group EADS [...]

UNITED STATES 12/02/2004

Olympic Security 

GlobalOptions, a firm founded and run by Neil Livingstone, author of nine books on terrorism (including Inside the PLO, with [...]

Spotlight UNITED STATES 29/01/2004

Can CIA Be Run Like a Private Company ? 

Would the "best practices" of big private corporations triumph over the huge bureaucratic machine of an intelligence agency like the CIA? Unquestionably, the executive director of the CIA, A.B. "Buzzy" Krongard, believes they could. This week a working group from [. [...]