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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 25. januar 2005 / Time Line January 25, 2005
Version 3.524. Januar 2005, 26. Januar 2005
01/25/2005
US warship begins Gulf of Guinea deployment
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-01/26/content_2508352.htm
www.chinaview.cn 2005-01-26 06:57:08
LAGOS, Jan. 25 (Xinhuanet) -- The United States on Tuesday began
the deployment of about 1,400 sailors and marines aboard USS
Emorys. Land to the oil-rich Gulf of Guinea for multiple security
training and maritime operations, the US navy said.
The US government has repeatedly expressed its willingness to
cooperate with nations in the Gulf of Guinea, including Nigeria,
Africa's biggest oil producer, in monitoring the waters to secure
the alternative source of oil to the Middle East.
01/25/2005
The CIA's new campus spies
by Alexander Cockburn
http://www.freepress.org/columns/display/2/2005/1051
After disclosure of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's effort to
set a new and spectacularly unaccountable version of the CIA in the
Pentagon, the sprouting forest of secret intelligence operations
set up in the wake of 9/11 is at last coming under some scrutiny.
Here's a sinister one in the academic field that escaped scrutiny
until this week.
Dr. David Price, of St. Martins College, in Olympia, Wash., is an
anthropologist long interested in the intersections of his
discipline with the world of intelligence and national security,
both the CIA and the FBI. Now he's turned the spotlight on a new
test program, operating without detection or protest, that is
secretly placing CIA agents in American university classrooms. With
time, these students -- who cannot admit to their true intentions
-- will inevitably pollute and discredit the universities in which
they are now enrolled.
Even before 9/11, government money was being sluiced into the
academies for covert subsidies for students. The National Security
Education Program (NSEP) siphoned off students from traditional
foreign language funding programs and offered graduate students
good money, sometimes $40,000 a year and up, to study "in demand"
languages, but with payback stipulations mandating that recipients
later work for unspecified U.S. national security agencies.
When the NSEP got off the ground in the early 1990s, there was some
huff and puff from concerned academics about this breaching of the
supposed barrier between the desires of academia and the state. But
there wasn't even a watch-pup's yap about Congressional approval
for Section 318 of the 2004 Intelligence Authorization Act, which
appropriated $4 million to fund a pilot program known as the Pat
Roberts Intelligence Scholars Program (PRISP), named after Senator
Pat Roberts (R.-Kan., Chair, Senate Select Committee on
Intelligence).
PRISP is designed to train intelligence operatives and analysts in
American university classrooms for careers in the CIA and other
agencies. The program now operates on an undisclosed number of
American college and university campuses. Dr. Price has discovered
that if the pilot phase of the program proves to be a useful means
of recruiting and training members of the intelligence community,
then the program will expand to more campuses across the
country...
01/25/2005
CONTRACTS from the United States
Department of Defense
The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory
(CSDL), in Cambridge, Mass., will be awarded a $62,042,901 cost
plus incentive fee contract for the design and development of the
TRIDENT II (D-5) missile guidance subsystem
life extension program. This contract contains options, which if
exercised, would increase the cumulative value of the contract to
$285,981,794 and will extend the period of performance through
September 2009. CSDL will issue three major subcontracts in support
of this effort. General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems
(GDAIS), Pittsfield, Mass. will be awarded a subcontract with an
estimated value of $5,720,125. The GDAIS subcontract effort will
support the MK6 LE effort by providing system design and analysis,
algorithm design and verification, system integration and
reliability, availability and maintainability tasks. Raytheon Co.,
Electronics Systems Division, El Segundo, Calif. will be awarded a
subcontract with an estimated value of $14,983,641. The Raytheon
subcontract will support the MK6 LE effort by providing radiation
testing, MK6 LE module design, breadboarding of MK6 LE system
components. Honeywell International, Space Systems Group,
Clearwater, Fla., will be awarded a subcontract with an estimated
value of $8,465,457. The Honeywell subcontract will support the MK6
LE effort by supporting the design of the MK6 LE memory and the
design, development and delivery of strategic grade Interferometric
Fiber Optic Gyroscope (IFOG) prototype units. Work will be
performed in Cambridge, Mass. (53 percent); Pittsfield, Mass. (9.2
percent); El Segundo, Calif. (24.2 percent); and Clearwater, Fla.
(13.6 percent), and the expected completion date is September 2007.
Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal
year. This contract was not competitively procured. The Navy's
Strategic Systems Programs is the contracting activity
(N000-30-05-C-0007).
Northrop Grumman Mission Systems, Clearfield, Utah, is being
awarded a $17,747,008 fixed price incentive firm with award fee
contract modification. The objective of the Rapid Execution and
Combat Targeting Service Life Extension Program Visual Display Unit
(VDU) Production is to produce the VDU hardware for the (50)
Minuteman (MM) III Launch Control Centers Weapon System Control
Consoles, and two missile maintenance trainers, thirteen missile
procedure trainers, and other test support facilities that support
the MM Weapon System. The Production phase will produce and deliver
the operational and initial spare VDUs in accordance with the SDD
qualified design. At this time, $16,684,101 of the funds has been
obligated. This work will be complete by September 2006.
Solicitation began May 2004 and negotiations were completed
December 2004. The Headquarters Ogden Air Logistics Center, Hill
Air Force Base, Utah, is the contracting activity
(F42610-98-C-0001).
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