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| U.S.-E.U.: WTO rules Boeing got $5B in illegal US subsidies by John Heilprin, Associated Press March 12th, 2012 The World Trade Organization ruled that U.S. planemaker Boeing received $5.3 billion in illegal government subsidies over a quarter-century. Airbus and Boeing have both complained to the WTO that the other is receiving state aid. They are locked in a long-running trade dispute over a market believed to be worth more than $3 trillion over the next decade. |
| US: Contracting Boom Could Fizzle Out by Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post April 7th, 2009 The surge in the U.S. military contracting workforce would ebb under Defense Secretary Gates's budget proposal as the Pentagon moves to replace private workers with full-time civil servants. The move could affect companies such as CACI and SAIC. "We are right-sizing the defense acquisition workforce so we can improve our contract oversight and get a better deal for the taxpayers," said the Pentagon's director of defense procurement and acquisition policy. |
| US: Gates Proposes Major Changes to Military Programs, Weapons Buys by August Cole, Wall Street Journal April 6th, 2009 Defense Secretary Robert Gates unveiled a sweeping overhaul of the Pentagon's top weapons priorities. The shake-up, a combination of defense contract cutbacks and policy changes, will stoke a smoldering debate in Congress, with cuts proposed for Lockheed Martin Corp.'s F-22 Raptor and replacement of the president's fleet of Marine One helicopters. |
| US: Pentagon Weighs Cuts and Revisions of Weapons by Christopher Drew, New York Times April 3rd, 2009 U.S. defense executives and consultants are worried about the sweeping changes in military programs that Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates is expected to announce on Monday. Weapons systems like missile defense are likely to endure deep cuts. |
| US: The Looming Crisis at the Pentagon by Chalmers Johnson, TomDispatch.com February 2nd, 2009 Like much of the rest of the world, Americans know that the U.S. automotive industry is in the grips of what may be a fatal decline. A similar crisis exists when it comes to the military-industrial complex. That crisis has its roots in the corrupt and deceitful practices that have long characterized the high command of the Armed Forces, civilian executives of the armaments industries, and Congressional opportunists and pay-to-play criminals. |
| US: 2nd Walkout at Boeing in 3 Years
by MICHELINE MAYNARD, The New York Times September 6th, 2008 The Boeing Company, whose order books are bulging with demand for its planes, was hit by its second major strike in three years early Saturday, when the union that represents 27,000 machinists in Washington State, Oregon and Kansas walked off the job. |
| US: Former Colo. nuke plant contractors ordered to pay $925M AP June 3rd, 2008 Two companies that worked as contractors with the now-defunct Rocky Flats nuclear weapons plant have been ordered to pay $925 million to residents who claimed that contamination blown from the facility endangered people's health and devalued their property. |
| INDIA: Gates in India to push US firms BBC News Online February 26th, 2008 Mr Gates is expected to spend his two-day visit lobbying for US firms that hope to win a contract to supply India with 126 new fighter jets. |
| US: Holes in the Wall
by Melissa del Bosque, The Texas Observer February 18th, 2008 As the U.S. Department of Homeland Security marches down the Texas border serving condemnation lawsuits to frightened landowners, Brownsville resident Eloisa Tamez, 72, has one simple question. She would like to know why her land is being targeted for destruction by a border wall, while a nearby golf course and resort remain untouched. |
| US: A Mission to Rebuild Reputations by Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post January 17th, 2008 Now those promises -- and the public's perception of the Air Force's ability to spend its money prudently -- are being tested by new contracting and public relations challenges. The Air Force is about to award two key contracts worth a total of about $55 billion, and Boeing is in the running for both deals. |
| US: Failure to Launch: In Death of Spy Satellite Program, Lofty Plans and Unrealistic Bids by Philip Taubman, New York Times November 11th, 2007 Collapse of a government funded project to build new spy satellites was all but inevitable. |
| INDIA: Building a Modern Arsenal in India by Heather Timmons and Somini Sengupta, The New York Times August 31st, 2007 India is developing a military appetite to match its growing economic power. With a ballooning arms budget, India will soon become one of the largest military markets in the world, making it an important new target for American arms manufacturers. |
| US: Boeing unit subject of refiled CIA-flight suit by Bloomberg News, Chicago Tribune August 2nd, 2007 A Boeing Co. unit falsified flight plans to disguise the Central Intelligence Agency's transporting of terrorism suspects to secret prisons overseas, the American Civil Liberties Union claims in an updated lawsuit. |
| US: Muslim Says He Was Abducted By U.S. by Armen Keteyian and Phil Hirschkorn., CBS News November 28th, 2006 Khaled El-Masri says he is not after money but answers about why he spent five months in harsh captivity as a prisoner in the war on terrorism. |
| US: Boeing Settles Cancer Suit Associated Press January 12th, 2006 Boeing Co. has agreed to pay $30 million to settle a lawsuit by residents who alleged that pollutants from a company lab caused them to get cancer. |
 | US: Magazine ad "unleashes hell" for Boeing and Bell by Hal Bernton, The Seattle Times October 1st, 2005 Boeing and its joint-venture partner Bell Helicopter apologized yesterday for a magazine ad published a month ago - and again this week by mistake - depicting U.S. Special Forces troops rappelling from an Osprey aircraft onto the roof of a mosque. |
| US: Lockheed, BAE protest Boeing pacts by Jonathan Karp and Andy Pasztor, Wall Street Journal October 13th, 2004 |
| USA: Rumsfeld to Restrict Senators' Access To Documents In Boeing Deal by Joseph L. Galloway, Knight-Ridder June 4th, 2004 Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld has sharply limited the information he is willing to let Congress see on a controversial defense contract that is the focus of multiple investigations. |
| US: Boeing reports $623 million profit, surge in defense revenue
by Dave Carpenter, Associated Press April 28th, 2004 Boeing Co. rode an 18 percent surge in revenue from its defense contracting unit to a far-better-than-expected $623 million profit in the first quarter and raised its earnings estimates for 2004 and 2005. |
| US: Probe of Boeing, Documents Expanded by Renae Merle, Washington Post April 28th, 2004 A criminal investigation into whether Boeing Co. used stolen Lockheed Martin Corp. documents to win an Air Force contract has grown to include an examination of NASA contract competitions, sources close to the inquiry said yesterday. |