“Disclosing the cost of even one Patriot missile could seriously damage the morale of a nation just trying to keep food on the table…”
••• Ignorance is bliss.
The Department of Defense (DOD) spent $384 billion in fiscal year 2009 on goods and services—double what it spent in 2001.
••• And according to this government report, the Pentagon’s professional shoppers couldn’t hack it on The Price Is Right.
“BAE has been wielding the axe quietly behind the scenes but aggressively so. That’s why their margins have been improving. They have been very proactive when it comes to reducing the size of their cost base, and my guess would be that more jobs will go in 2011.”
••• Britain’s largest manufacturer will cut 18,000 jobs in the US and UK this year.
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AIDEF strongly opposed large scale participation of private firms in India’s defence sector as it would endanger India’s security requirements and would show its weaknesses to enemy nations.
••• 2011 will be “Save Defence Industry Year” in India. A half-million-strong union of defense industry workers, which has staged multiple strikes this year, opposes privatization and foreign investment in military production.
Washington Man Charged in Connection with Attempts to Ship Sensitive Military Technology to China
••• Lian Yang allegedly tried to smuggle $620,000 worth of “radiation-hardened, programmable semiconductor devices that are used in satellites.”
••• Oh, Assange surrendered, BTW. Update: Pictures and video from the pro-Assange protest outside London metro court, brought to you by the @warisbusiness Twitter feed.