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[privacy] Server in The Sky: FBI Expected to Award NGI Contract to Lockheed Mart in
From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 20:37:43 GMT
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Via FCW.com. [snip] The FBI is expected to announce as early as today that it has awarded a $1 billion biometric database contract to Lockheed Martin, industry sources say. An FBI spokesman said he anticipated the agency would make an announcement as early as today but did not confirm who won. Industry sources close to the competition said the FBI has notified the bidders that Lockheed Martin was awarded the contract. [snip] More: http://www.fcw.com/online/news/151608-1.html For background, simply Google for "Server in The Sky". Also, given that Lockheed Martin is also the contractor "conducting" the UK 2011 National Census, this should be rather worrisome, regardless of MP assurances: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7231186.stm - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFHsgOMq1pz9mNUZTMRAok5AJ4+IUduPrAORcVUCb4dzocEbJZX+QCfVhwo 44+8ym/H5GqB6/9u+P22zX8= =m37x -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawg(at)netzero.net ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ privacy mailing list privacy () whitestar linuxbox org http://www.whitestar.linuxbox.org/mailman/listinfo/privacy
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