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 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 [. [...]

UNITED STATES 13/11/2003

Don't Underestimate the Multilateral Approach 

In a new study commissioned by the US Air Force [...]

UNITED STATES 16/10/2003

Information Warfare 

The MIS Training Institute is organizing a " Forum on [...]

UNITED STATES 02/10/2003

A Palm Pilot on the Battlefield 

The U.S. not-for-profit company MITRE has begun testing personal assistants and cellular telephones to adapt them to the needs of troops on the battlefield. [...]

UNITED STATES 31/07/2003

Boeing Increases Profits and Saves U.S. Titanium 

Although Boeing Corp.'s average profit margin on its civilian 767 airliners works out to around 7% the company is to [...]

UNITED STATES 31/07/2003

Corruption 

It could probably rank as one of the biggest cases [...]

UNITED STATES 03/07/2003

The Risks of Hiring Private Firms 

In calling increasingly on the services of private contractors, the U.S. military appears to be losing some of its basic functions. [...]

UNITED STATES 19/06/2003

No negociations with Iceland 

Last year U.S. secretary of state Colin Powell pledged that [...]

UNITED STATES IRAN 05/06/2003

How U.S. Will Proceed Against Iran 

After hovering between negotiating with Tehran and taking punitive action against it Washington has pumped for a campaign to destabilize the regime. [...]

UNITED STATES 20/03/2003

Chuck Wilson 

He may be a colonel in the US Air Force [...]