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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 23. februar 2005 / Time Line February 23, 2005
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02/23/2005
CONTRACTS from the United States Department of Defense
Digital System Resources (DSR), Inc., Fairfax, Va., is being
awarded a $10,017,241 firm-fixed-price, cost-plus-fixed-fee
contract for fabrication, integration, test and delivery of seven
photonics mast workstations (PMWs) for installation on Virginia
Class submarines. The contract will also include engineering
services in support of the development, field maintenance and
modification of the photonics mast workstations for integration
into the photonics mast system. The PMWs are used to control and
display imaging sensor data received by and transmitted from the
AN/BVS-1 photonics mast system on Virginia Class submarines. The
photonics mast system is a non-hull-penetrating, submarine,
electronic imaging system that replaces conventional periscopes.
Work will be performed in Fairfax, Va., and is expected to be
completed by August 2011. None of the contract funds will expire at
the end of the current fiscal year. The contract was not
competitively procured. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington,
Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity
(N00024-05-C-6244).
02/23/2005
Brazil Prevents Hiring of Locals as Mercenaries in Iraq
http://www.plenglish.com/article.asp?ID=%7B5C55C9C9-AEDB-48DA-B564-AC4363F662E7%7D&language=EN
Brasilia, Feb 22 (Prensa Latina) Brazil has bannedd the hiring of
locals as mercenaries to aid occupation troops in Iraq.
The Sao Paulo Attorney General´s Office established as
illegal the behavior of German subject Frank Guenter Salewski and
the Body Guard Company, which were hiring army and reserve forces
to work in Iraq, according to reports made public on Tuesday.
Those found guilty of this practice will now be fined with 10,000
reales ($3,700) per each mercenary hired, as ruled last week in
Paraná state...
02/23/2005
Company's Work in Iraq Profited Bush's Uncle
William H.T. 'Bucky' Bush earned $450,000 on stock options with
defense contractor ESSI.
By Walter F. Roche Jr.
Times Staff Writer
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/iraq/la-na-bucky23feb23,0,2285985.story
WASHINGTON The Iraq war helped bring record earnings to St.
Louis-based defense contractor Engineered Support Systems Inc., and
new financial data show that the firm's war-related profits have
trickled down to a familiar family name Bush.
William H.T. "Bucky" Bush, uncle of the president and youngest
brother of former President George H.W. Bush, cashed in ESSI stock
options last month with a net value of nearly half a million
dollars.
"Uncle Bucky," as he is known to the president, is on the board of
the company, which supplies armor and other materials to U.S.
troops. The company's stock prices have soared to record heights
since before the invasion, benefiting in part from contracts to
rapidly refit fleets of military vehicles with extra armor.
William Bush exercised options on 8,438 shares of company stock
Jan. 18, according to reports filed with the U.S. Securities and
Exchange Commission. He acknowledged in an interview that the
transaction was worth about $450,000.
In an earnings report issued Tuesday, the firm disclosed that net
earnings for the first quarter ending Jan. 31 reached a record
$20.6 million, while quarterly revenue hit $233.5 million, up 20%
from a year ago. As a result, the company boosted its projected
annual revenue to between $990 million and $1 billion.
William Bush, 66, a onetime St. Louis bank executive and head of an
investment firm, joined the board in 2000, eight months before his
nephew won the White House.
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