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 08/06/2006

John “Chris” Inglis 

The NSA has proceeded with a subtle musical chairs exercise. [...]

UNITED KINGDOM 08/06/2006

Seeking Investors for North Korea 

Britain’s Financial Service Authority has just given a green light to a consortium of financiers and ex-diplomats to raise funds in London to invest in North Korea. [...]

UNITED STATES 24/05/2006

Record Spending on Black Programs 

The Pentagon's budget for classified projects, known as black programs, will be higher in 2007 than at any point since [...]

UNITED STATES 12/01/2006

Amit Yoran 

Previously in charge of national cyber security at the Department [...]

FRANCE 09/11/2005

EADS chooses its PKI at last 

After a lot of humming and hawing (IOL 499), the [...]

UNITED STATES 27/10/2005

Move to Joint-Service Drones 

It wasn't by coincidence that a seminar on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) organized this week in Arlington by the American Army Aviation Association scheduled speeches by generals Walter Davis and E.J. Sinclair. [...]

UNITED STATES 13/10/2005

Air Force Officers Vent Grievances 

U.S. Air Force intelligence officers are beginning to complain in public about the poor career prospects in their line of work. [...]

BELGIUM 13/10/2005

Systran Takes on EU Commission 

Systran, a world leader in translation software that supplies the US Air Force, the CIA and FBI has accused the European Union of theft. [...]

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 [...]