Word: subcontracting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...through companies like ADL--in developing the super-sophisticated weaponry now in use in Indochina. "People sniffers," laser- and TV-guided bombs, remote-controlled planes, and computerized bombing patterns were all developed by American scientists, yet the link is rarely direct. The weapons are developed component by component, subcontract by subcontract, so that the scientist rarely creates the entire weapon and almost never receives a government contract stamped "for use in Indochina...
...destroyers will be of a new, larger class to be used mainly for antisubmarine duty. In pursuit of the award, Litton spread word that, if it won, it planned to hire 2,000 additional black workers, who might otherwise drift to the ghettos of the North. Litton will also subcontract about 60% of the job to other firms. Some work may well go to Maine's Bath Iron Works Corp., which was Litton's major competitor for the award...