EADS: Bavarian Consolidation? * A month ago EADS CEO Tom Enders started talking about coming redundancies. More recent reports in the German press have been mentioning up to 8,000 potential job cuts next year, as the group rebrands itself as Airbus and streamlines its...
No Easy Exit from Afghanistan * Afghanistan’s Loya Jirga council advised President Hamid Karzai to stop delaying the signature of a pending security agreement with the US. Karzai does not seem inclined to relent, despite threats from the Americans that they...
Unstaffed DoD * Arnold Punaro, a retired USMC Maj. General and the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA)’s new chairman, made a list of vacant senior civilian positions at the Department of Defense, and it’s a pretty long one. Either these roles...
Flip sides of the COIN * Just hours after US Secretary of State John Kerry had announced a deal had been reached, Afghan President Hamid Karzai postponed the signing of a security agreement with the US until after next April’s elections. American officials were...
Contractors Face New Regulatory Obligations * Effective since last Monday, a Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) amendment applies to all new contracts that use or generate technical information and spells out new responsibilies for contractors...
