http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2013/mar/24/bae-systems-wins-us-military-contract
what happened to the republican doom and gloom over pentagon plunge?
BAE Systems has signed a multimillion-dollar deal with the Pentagon, pictured, that includes an order for insensitive munitions explosives. Photograph: Reuters
BAE Systems has been awarded a new contract from the US military worth up to $780m (£512m), in a rare spending boost from its largest single customer.The US is BAE's biggest market but the defence contractor has warned it faced weak demand from across the Atlantic due to the scaling back of operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as public spending cuts.These factors have affected BAE's performance in the UK, where the group is grappling with the consequences of a sustained reduction in spending by the Ministry of Defence.The five-year deal with the Pentagon to produce explosives at a plant in Tennessee includes a further order for IMX-101 munition that is seen as a safe and effective replacement for TNT in artillery rounds.
hmmmmm, doesn't congress have to sign off on spending in the gov't venue, or is it only a problem when the money is spent on and for America?
are they telling us that there is no company in the US that is capable of doing this, and are they still outsourcing part of the jobs that could be done at home, by at home people, just because they do it here in Tennessee it still is a foreign company, and how much of it is done in Britain?
