The Aerospace Industries Association (AIA), Aviation Week magazine as well as some other institute and companies released their annual report on aersopace related workforce. The prediction is that the industry could shed up to four and a half percent of their workers during 2009. This would amount to about thirty thousand positions. The report did find that there were substantial job openings...
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August 2009
Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) is dead if you don’t know. One of his many legacies, good and bad, will be the Massachusetts defense industry. A politician and defense companies have a symbiotic relationship. One provides money and benefits the other sends tax payer dollars their way. As part of this the Defense Department gets some of the equipment they want at a price they can afford....
The threat of terrorism and attacks on facilities across the United States and the globe have increased the requirement for physical security and monitoring. In the U.S. these have included military bases as well as financial centers. In Russia schools and theaters have been attacked. In Europe the focus has been on transportation systems such as subways and buses. Obviously in Iraq,...
The Democrats regained control of Congress in 2006. In 2008 they got the White House back as well. The traditional tension between the Legislative and Executive branches of the Federal Government continue despite the fact that everyone involved are in the same party. So far the biggest conflict that Obama has had with the Democrats in Congress has been defense spending. The reason as always...
As one of the reforms passed in the last year of defense contracting was a requirement that a company self report themselves to the Department of Defense’s Inspector General (DOD IG). Previously any person could report a possible violation protected by whistle blower law as well as sub and prime contractors could report on each other. This new requirement is for a company to report...
As discussed in the past the Federal Government especially spends so much money on so many things there are many opportunities for fraud, waste and abuse. The Washington Post recently reported on a case of what may seem to be this related to Army information systems and support contracts in Northern Virginia. In this instance a personal relationship developed between an Army official and an...
The U.S. Government awards a great deal of contracts each year worth a lot of money. One of its goals is to award twenty-five percent of these contracts to small businesses. Now that does not mean that they will be prime contractors but they may also team with bigger companies to share in a large contract. That is one of the more common ways to meet this goal. On all contracts the prime...
Everyone who works with computer systems understands the need for security. Most companies have policies about what software may be installed and used on their provided PC’s or other products. This just makes sense and limits possible problems. The Federal Government has a central policy for all of their systems but allows the various Departments and Agencies to implement it as they...
It is good to generate power using renewable sources like the wind. The Spotted Owl is good as well. In the State of Washington the Spotted Owl is more good then wind power. The state’s Department of Natural Resources (DNR) was thinking of leasing a few thousand acres of land to a lumber company for a possible wind farm. Windmills may be built along a ridge line to catch the wind....
The Department of Defense obviously has a great need for translators considering the current main efforts are in Iraq and Afghanistan. In order to procure these it had awarded an omnibus contract to L3 Communications in the early part of this decade. Many of the translators used by the U.S. forces are locals or expatriates from Iraq or Afghanistan that are paid through this type of contract....
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