LATEST NEWS FROM OFF-SITE

• Memo Confirms Danger Of Contractors' Trash Burning In Afghanistan May 22, 2012
  [H]igh concentrations of dust and burned waste present at Bagram Airfield for most of the war are likely to impact veterans’ health for the rest of their lives. […]
• CBS News: US Resumes Some Arms Shipments To Bahrain May 11, 2012
  [The news] came as Bahraini riot police on Friday fired tear gas and stun grenades during clashes with anti-government protesters… […]
• Pentagon Offers To Security-Scan Contractors' Email May 11, 2012
  It is unclear how many of the roughly 8,000 eligible defense contractors will want to sign up. […]
• U.S. Army Recruiter Charged With Sex Crime May 11, 2012
  The girl begged [her high school] counselor…not to involve police because she worried that it could hurt her chances of joining the Army. […]
• 17 Senators Say Pentagon Arms Deal With Russia Supports 'Mass Murder' May 9, 2012
  The Pentagon says it’s in a bind, with nowhere to turn for helicopters needed by Afghanistan’s air force except Russia, a top arms supplier to Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad. […]
• Dispatches From A Kazakh Defense Expo May 3, 2012
  KADEX kicked off on Thursday in Astana with hundreds of defense companies displaying their wares, Kazakhstan's armed forces strutting their stuff, and a visit from President Nursultan Nazarbayev. […]
• Wal-Mart Bribery Figure Recruited From Defense Contractor April 29, 2012
  The person most responsible...was the company’s ambitious chief executive, Eduardo Castro-Wright, a native of Ecuador who was recruited from Honeywell in 2001... […]
• White House Proposes F-16 Sale To Taiwan April 29, 2012
  The letter, dated Friday, acknowledges the growing gap in air power between Taiwan and China and assures a "near-term" solution to deal with the imbalance. […]
• Brazilian Prostitute Badly Injured By US Marines, Who Threw Her Out Of An Embassy Car April 26, 2012
  [There was] a dispute over payment before the incident occurred… The US Embassy is said to have paid her medical expenses.  […]
• MOTHER JONES: Could a Union Strike Ground the Pentagon's New Jet? April 23, 2012
  Last Sunday, workers at Lockheed Martin's Fort Worth, Texas, construction plant voted by more than a 9-to-1 margins to strike for better conditions. […]
• POGO: Federal Court Upholds Ban on Contractor Campaign Donations April 20, 2012
  Of course, if the contractor is a corporation (even a single-person corporation), the corporation itself is also subject to the ban, but officers, directors, stockholders and employees of the corporation, and political action committees (PACs) set up by the corporation, are free to contribute to federal elections. […]
• Iris Scanners Proliferating Worldwide April 20, 2012
  One company alone, Eyelock Corp., has deployed machines in some U.S. ports, as well as Mexico, Singapore and Columbia. […]
• Putin Backs Mercenary Proposal April 11, 2012
  Russian Prime Minister and president-elect Vladimir Putin on Wednesday supported the idea of private defense companies that would provide protection services and military training programs abroad without the participation of the Russian state. […]
• Russia Prosecutes Nuke Program Thefts April 10, 2012
  Authorities last week disclosed an alleged effort to lift $6.3 million from the budget for building and sustaining an earth tremor sensor installation in Russia's Krasnoyarsk area. […]