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	Bills Digest no. 88, 2005–06 - Defence (Road Transport Legislation Exemption) Bill 2005
		Defence licences are cancelled if the holder’s civilian licence is cancelled in any state of territory, or if the holder’s employment with the Department of Defence is terminated.
		Similarly, a Defence licence will be suspended if the holder’s civilian licence is suspended in any state or territory, or if the holder fails to maintain currency of their Defence licence where particular currency requirements exist (at 3.2.3).
		According to the Explanatory Memorandum, ‘[d]efence contractors and defence employees will still be required to comply with all the other State and Territory road transport laws that apply to them, such as the requirement to hold a valid licence and comply with the road rules’.
	www.aph.gov.au /library/pubs/bd/2005-06/06bd088.htm (2375 words)

	Jones Day - Publications - Honest and Reasonable Mistake: Is it Still a Defence to Construction Site Safety ...
		The Court held that the magistrate had not properly considered the contractor’s available defence of honest and reasonable belief and his rejection of that defence was without a proper evidential basis.
		Being the responsible contractor, Hyundai were thus prosecuted for breaching Regulation 38B(1) of the CSSR on the basis of their failure "to take adequate steps to prevent any person on the site from falling a height of two metres or more." Hyundai were convicted by the magistrate; they appealed against conviction.
		In the Chun Wo case, the question of whether the common law defence was available in respect of a breach of Regulations 43(b) and 51, as a matter of construction, was left undecided by the Judge.
	www.jonesday.com /pubs/pubs_detail.aspx?pubid=339803 (1024 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: United Defense (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		A defense contractor (sometimes called a military contractor) is a business organization or individual that provides products or services to a defense department of a government.
		On March 7 2005 UK-based defence contractor BAE Systems announced it was to acquire UDI for $3.974 billion (£2.1 billion).
		United Defense is a leading prime contractor for a number of combat vehicles, artillery and weapons delivery systems, and other defense systems, including the Bradley Fighting Vehicle, the linchpin of the Army’s mechanized forces.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/United-Defense (2082 words)

	Al Jazeera English - Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		In 2003, the five largest defence contractors all generated significant boosts in revenue from prime government contracts, according to figures from the Department of Defence.
		While companies such as Halliburton and Bechtel earn billions of dollars on reconstruction contracts for Iraq, defence contractors that supply the military with the weapons of war have reaped the benefits of a military budget that has soared during the Bush administration, the WPI report said.
		Some defence industry experts, however, dismiss the notion that major defence contractors greatly profited from the use of such weapons, calling them small potatoes in the overall revenue of companies such as Lockheed Martin and Boeing.
	english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/1EEBDE26-37EE-4DEF-88DB-515D114A2132.htm (1188 words)

	Seasprite contractor to sort out mess - Breaking News - National - Breaking News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The American contractor blamed for huge delays and cost blowouts on a $1 billion RAN helicopter project says it is only months away from sorting out the mess.
		An Australian defence department review, due to report by the end of June, may recommend the grounded Seasprite choppers be replaced at a cost of at least another $1 billion.
		The navy bought 11 of the helicopters from US defence contractor Kaman Aerospace for $1 billion in 1997, but the Seasprites have been plagued by technical problems and have never been fully operational.
	www.theage.com.au /news/National/Seasprite-contractor-to-sort-out-mess/2006/05/17/1147545360762.html (417 words)

	Defense contractor - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A defense contractor (sometimes called a military contractor) is a business organization or individual that provides products or services to a defense department of a government.
		Defense contractors do not generally provide direct support of military operations.
		Under 1949 Geneva Conventions defense contractors engaged in direct support of military operations may be legitimate targets of military attack.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Defence_contractor (163 words)

	Independent Contractor Defence in Occupiers Liability Claims
		The Chambers Judge held that it was reasonable for OUC to have an independent contractor perform the lawn and grounds maintenance on the campus, as the work was not inherently dangerous such that it could not be delegated, and there was no statutory public duty on OUC to prevent it from contracting out such work.
		The Plaintiff did not take issue with the trial judge's conclusions that it was reasonable for OUC to hire an independent contractor or that reasonable care had been exercised in the selection of the contractor.
		The lesson to be taken from the Grochowich case is that insurers relying on an independent contractor defence under section 5 of the Occupiers Liability Act must ensure that evidence of the occupier’s supervision of the contractor is properly developed in the first instance, with emphasis on matters of safety.
	www.cwilson.com /insurance/reviews/insrev79.shtml (700 words)

	AM - DMO employees under cloud over payments to defence contractor
		Two Defence procurement officers breached Government rules when they contributed their own money to a defence contractor who was struggling financially.
		One of the Defence employees linked to the improper payments was also linked to the decision to give that same company lucrative taxpayer funded Defence contracts, partly on the basis that it was in sound financial shape.
		For instance, Defence sources say a tender in the '90s, which specified the use of a certain machine to make boots, gave some companies an unfair advantage over others, an advantage which lasted for years and was worth millions and millions of dollars.
	www.abc.net.au /am/content/2006/s1542099.htm (762 words)

	Blair embroiled in fraud probe over BAE slash fund payments \| News \| This is London (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Defence giant BAE Systems is once again in the sights of Britain's Serious Fraud Office as it investigates allegations of "backhanders" being paid to the Tanzanian government for the 2001 sale of a £27m air traffic control system.
		For a company whose bread and butter is the defence of the realm, defending its own integrity has, in recent years, become as much a part of its business.
		It is now understood the SFO and Ministry of Defence police are looking into the controversial sale of the air traffic control system to the Tanzania as part of its wider inquiry.
	www.thisislondon.co.uk /news/article-23374399-details/Blair+embroiled+in+fraud+probe+over+BAE+slash+fund+payments/article.do (969 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Business \| Business targets defence contracts
		But the Ministry of Defence says it has seen no slackening of private sector interest in a scheme that is being pioneered in the UK.
		Defence PFI contracts are considered more secure than those in the public sector because "body bags are involved" claims Professor Keith Hartley of York University's Centre for Defence Economics.
		Chasing deals can cost contractors several million pounds in the bidding process but that is more than compensated for by the regular income.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/business/1665955.stm (1008 words)

	2006 Report of the Auditor General of Canada - Status Report - Chapter 3 - National Defence-NATO Flying Training in ...
		Where National Defence was not able to use training, we calculated the cost of this excess capacity and looked at whether the Department had plans for using it.
		National Defence, Public Works and Government Services Canada, and the contractor have since determined that there was about $89 million of training missed from the start of the program until the time the contractor was able to meet its obligations.
		National Defence remains confident that the new basic flying training option, being developed in a complementary contract, contains measures to reduce the financial impact of fluctuations in pilot enrollment and employs the lessons learned from the NFTC project that were recommended by the Auditor General.
	www.oag-bvg.gc.ca /domino/reports.nsf/html/20060503ce.html (3577 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Business \| Defence firms fear Saudi fall-out
		As one example, the chief executive of a leading defence contractor was all set to give me an interview last Thursday about his concerns that his company and many others were set to lose valuable Saudi business.
		However, another defence executive later told me that it was the government which was putting pressure on all defence businesses to keep quiet about the potential damage to their businesses from what is increasingly perceived as a Saudi boycott of the UK in the awarding of valuable contracts and orders.
		The attempt falls under the umbrella of the Defence Industries Council - which is chaired by Rolls-Royce chief executive Sir John Rose, and describes itself as a forum for senior executives from defence companies and trade associations to discuss issues of strategic importance to the defence industry.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/business/6206298.stm (994 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Europe \| EU agrees to open defence market
		EU defence ministers have agreed to open up billions of euros of military spending to cross-border competition.
		When Europe's largest defence contractor, the European Aeronautic Defence and Space company (EADS), was formed from the merger of French, German and Spanish defence companies in 2000, some observers expected a wave of consolidation in the European defence sector.
		The Aerospace and Defence Industries Association of Europe (ASD) backs the new code of conduct - but would prefer it to be binding rather than voluntary.
	www.angelfire.com /jazz/sugimoto/defenceeu.html (359 words)

	Global Defence Review:Defence trends
		The largest US manufacturer is Lockheed Martin, formed by Lockheed's merg-er with Martin Marietta and Loral, that has annual defence sales of some $20 billion and is as The Economist recently noted, "the world's largest defence contractor".
		The second trend is increased international collaboration in the acquisition of major defence systems, despite the problems of con-flicting national requirements, cost over-runs and delayed delivery dates, as experienced by the Eurofighter 2000, a collaborative project between Britain, Germany, Italy and Spain.
		The continuing ethnic and religious con-flicts in the former Yugoslavia and elsewhere, including Africa, are creating increasing politi-cal pressure on western and allied govern-ments to send military forces to intervene in these conflicts to reduce civilian casualties.
	www.global-defence.com /1997/DefenceTrends.html (584 words)

	Australian IT - Defence patches HR and payroll (Ben Woodhead, DECEMBER 15, 2006)
		Defence has sounded the call for bids from third party services providers in a tender issued just two weeks after the department pulled the plug on discussions with Oracle over an upgrade to the PMKeyS human resources and payroll platform.
		According to project details posted by Defence, a contractor will be brought in to support the existing PeopleSoft PMKeyS system for at least two years.
		Defence said earlier this month that the decision to restart the $100 million upgrade would delay the project by at least 12 months as it solicited new bids from the two software makers and went through a two-stage contract approval process.
	australianit.news.com.au /articles/0,7204,20931856^15319^^nbv^,00.html (315 words)

	The Bushmaster Troop Carrier : Yet another Howard Government Defence Bungle
		The Defence Minister, Robert Hill, has revealed that the Iraqis are interested and that one of the prototypes would be sent to the United Arab Emirates.
		ADI was then a Commonwealth-owned defence contractor, but two months later it was sold to a consortium of the Belgiorno-Nettis family-controlled Transfield and the French electronics entity Thomson-CSF.
		"There was a whole series of problems, of which some were on the Defence side and some were on their side," Acutt said.
	expage.com /bushmasterbungle (576 words)

	Don't sell out to Uncle Sam
		European defence spending is growing at a fraction of the rate from a lower base.
		The argument is that as America's and Britain's foreign and security ambitions are identical, and that as there is little prospect of being in any significant conflict where the Americans are not fighting as well, we should have compatible military equipment and command structures.
		To become part of the US defence complex serving very different needs is lunacy, even if it enriches BAE directors and gives a short-term fix to redressing the company's technological weakness.
	www.informationclearinghouse.info /article4163.htm (1033 words)

	CBC News Indepth: Ballistic Missile Defence
		Defence Minister Gordon O'Connor says the Conservative government is open to restarting talks on missile defence with the U.S. In the first of several planned tests in 2006, an 11-metre-long missile is launched from Alaska's Kodiak Island.
		Executives from defence contractor Raytheon Co. say they prefer Labrador as the site for an X Band radar installation, the technology that would be the eyes of a missile shield.
		Defence Minister Bill Graham says the Norad amendment is not a step toward Canada joining U.S. missile defence.
	www.cbc.ca /news/background/us_missiledefence/timeline.html (1104 words)

	Democracy Now! \| Private Contractors and Torture at Abu Ghraib, Iraq
		Two private military contractors are being investigated for their role in torture allegations at the Abu Ghraib prison, Iraq: CACI International, Inc. from Arlington, Virginia, and Titan of San Diego, California.
		Pratap, you write that Caci, one of the private military contractors being investigated for their role in the torture allegations at Abu Ghraib is currently advertising for interrogators to be dispatched to Afghanistan, Iraq, and Kosovo.
		One of the contractors, for example, the one that's Titan's translator, who is being investigated for his role in Guantanamo Bay, actually failed a test as an interrogator.
	www.democracynow.org /article.pl?sid=04/05/12/1420257 (2493 words)

	Jane's Defence Weekly - Analysis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		South African Defence Minister Mosioua Lekota used his National Assembly budget speech on 27 March to stress the government's commitment to regional security and to...
		US defence spending is expected to remain around the half-trillion dollar mark, in today's dollars, throughout the next decade.
		The track record of UK defence acquisition is mixed; collaborative working has a strong track record of increasing the predictability with which projects meet the...
	jdw.janes.com /public/jdw/analysis.shtml (988 words)

	Terror suspect made defence film \| The Nation \| The Australian
		Defence contractors the John Holland Group confirmed yesterday that in 1996 John Howard Amundsen, who has been accused of plotting terrorist attacks, supplied an induction video for workers building the Jindalee Over the Horizon Radar Network.
		An ADF spokesman said such a clearance would normally be the responsibility of the defence contractor.
		Mr Amundsen, who is being held in strict maximum security in a Brisbane prison, has cited his involvement in the Jindalee project in an affidavit he filed with the Queensland Supreme Court in support of his bail application, scheduled to be heard on Monday.
	www.theaustralian.news.com.au /story/0,20867,20894008-2702,00.html (597 words)

	US defence contractor looks for quantum leap in radar research \| Science \| Guardian Unlimited
		Lockheed Martin, a main US defence contractor, thinks it can exploit research on the fringes of theoretical physics to build the ultimate radar, which could see through anything, from buildings to solid earth.
		It says the device could penetrate any type of defence, to identify hidden weapons and roadside bombs from hundreds of miles away.
		Filing a patent does not mean that the company has the know how to build such a system - British Rail famously patented a nuclear fusion-powered flying saucer in the 1970s - but Lockheed Martin is known to be experimenting with sensors based on quantum entanglement, also known as ghost imaging.
	www.guardian.co.uk /science/story/0,,2027298,00.html (603 words)

	andrewcoyne.com: Minister of Defence Lobbyists
		Until former brigadier-general Gordon O'Connor was elected in 2004 and named defence critic, he had for years been a registered lobbyist working for the public-affairs giant Hill and Knowlton and specializing in advising defence manufacturers on how to secure government contracts.
		From 1996 to 2004, he was an official lobbyist for defence contractor BAE Systems, which last June took over another of his clients, United Defense.
		It is not unusual for retired military officers to take jobs connected to the defence industry, but it is rare for a defence lobbyist to jump so quickly to the post of defence minister.
	andrewcoyne.com /2006/02/minister-of-defence-lobbyists.php (451 words)

	The evolution of COTS in the defence industry - Jane's Business (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Over the course of a single defence and military programme the COTS microprocessors chosen five years ago have advanced multiple generations and their speed has increased tenfold.
		From the perspective of the defence contractor, the basic cost considerations are similar to those of the Government.
		Defence contractors therefore need to obtain realistic predictions of cost performance from their COTS suppliers, both for initial deployment and over the programme life-cycle.
	www.janes.com /business/news/jdi/jdi001009_1_n.shtml (1619 words)

	Defence Intelligence Centres (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Jane's Defence Industry is a concise 'one-stop source' of the latest developments and analysis in the defence industry.
		Contractor details are also included for procurement and market monitoring.
		Jane's International Defence Review is a world leading publication covering land, sea, air and joint services, delivering detailed analysis of defence technology, equipment and strategy.
	www2.janes.com /public/def_news_analysis.html (3286 words)

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