Rejected by governments October. 10, 2012: EADS announces [PDF] that they and BAE have decided to terminate their merger discussions. They confirm what had been widely discussed in the past month, with mounting pressure in recent days: “it has become clear that...
* German news agency DPA reported earlier today [in German] that talks between EADS and BAE had collapsed because of a lack of agreement between the French and British governments, which “sources close to EADS” later told Reuters is wrong without...
Last before Flight III The US Navy commissioned USS Michael Murphy (DDG 112) which will be homeported in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Before the Navy restructured its surface combatant plans in 2009, the destroyer was expected to be the last of the Arleigh Burke class. John...
* The Pentagon has paid $188M in container detention fees that went back to 2006 in just the past few months, according to USA Today. Minimizing these fees is much more complicated than the article makes it out to be. Of course rent-to-own costs more than outright...
* SASC Ranking Member Senator McCain [R-AZ] wrote to SecDef Panetta that by his calculations (which he did not provide), it could cost DoD $4B to comply with Labor/OMB guidance relative to WARN Act liabilities. On the White House’s position that contractors...
