tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-94161205314098957 2014-02-16T12:01:14-05:00 Original reporting on little-known U.S. government funded foreign aid projects, so-called "drug war" initiatives, and overseas business subsidies. TypePad tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834515b9569e201a5116dff4b970c 2014-02-16T12:01:14-05:00 2014-02-16T12:01:14-05:00

Many thanks to Drudge Report for spreading the word about my latest article “Feds want to track your DNA like a license plate.”

Steve Peacock tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834515b9569e201a73d79549f970d 2014-02-16T11:48:14-05:00 2014-02-16T11:48:14-05:00

Just as details are emerging about a controversial, nationwide vehicle-surveillance database, WND has learned the federal government is planning an even more invasive spy program using “physiological signatures” to track down individuals.

Steve Peacock tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834515b9569e201901e46dcb1970b 2013-07-15T13:19:53-04:00 2013-07-15T13:19:53-04:00

My latest from WND. The Obama administration continues to ramp up its military-response capabilities in Africa, where it is now looking for contractor support to transport U.S. Africa Command troops, weaponry and explosives.

Steve Peacock tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834515b9569e2017617152e33970c 2012-08-07T17:27:55-04:00 2012-08-07T17:27:55-04:00

The Obama Administration is providing twenty-eight jet engines to the Indonesian Air Force, which will use the re-manufactured Pratt & Whitney F100-PW-220E engines to equip its F-16 fighters.

Steve Peacock tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834515b9569e201761665a0e0970c 2012-07-12T13:51:49-04:00 2012-07-12T13:51:49-04:00

The federal government’s expanded use of drones over U.S. airspace for “humanitarian assistance and homeland security” purposes soon will receive a boost of assistance from the private sector. A cadre of contracted “subject-matter experts” will help devise national policies and procedures governing unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs.

Steve Peacock tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834515b9569e20177432c5221970d 2012-07-09T10:00:03-04:00 2012-07-12T14:00:24-04:00

See my latest article contribution to WND: “Feds recruit private sector to expand drone use; Seek traffic control experts to launch more spy planes over U.S. airspace.”

Steve Peacock tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834515b9569e2015437e5790c970c 2011-12-05T18:35:08-05:00 2011-12-05T18:35:08-05:00

The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) plans to outsource a chunk of its global fuel supply and storage services to industry, though the agency has not disclosed the exact magnitude of those future contracts, U.S. Trade & Aid Monitor has discovered. According to several presolicitation notices dated Dec. 5 and discovered...

Steve Peacock tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834515b9569e2014e8a5a87ec970d 2011-08-03T15:14:34-04:00 2011-08-03T15:15:19-04:00

The U.S. Air Force awarded a $42.3 million contract to Lockheed Martin Corp. in order to upgrade U.S.-provided F-16 fighter jets of the Pakistani Air Force.

Steve Peacock tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834515b9569e2014e882402fe970d 2006-07-27T00:00:00-04:00 2011-07-25T11:48:37-04:00

Defense manufacturer EDO Corp. is getting a sole-source contract to provide conventional- and nuclear-bomb ejectors to the U.S. Air Force, in spite of revelations that one of its board members simultaneously led a Pentagon-supported think-tank which consulted the Dept. of Defense on the procurement of the F-22 Raptor program -- a multibillion-dollar aerospace project for which EDO is a subcontractor.

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