EADS Internal Battle Exacerbated by Defense Industry Requirements (updated)

You want scary this Halloween? Well, you could be managing EADS. DID has discussed Airbus’ difficulties before, mostly in the context of BAE’s divestiture and likely investments in the defense field. A related corporate issue also feeds back into the defense sector, however; it concerns the balance of French and German representation within Airbus and EADS, and related political pressures from interested governments.

Of course, Halloween eventually ends, and it would appear that EADS has now resolved the issue…

$9.7M to TribalCo for 2006-2007 IT Support in Iraq

Small business qualifier Tribalco L.L.C. in Bethesda, MD received a $9.7 million sole-source, firm-fixed-price contract for information technology support services at Camp Victory, Baghdad, Iraq. Work is expected to be complete by Oct. 25, 2007. The Joint Contracting Command, Baghdad, Iraq, issued the contract (W91GEU-07-C-0007).