Word: subcontractors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Barbouti's IBI had set up a network of offices stretching from Europe to Asia. In West Germany, where export-license rules have been hopelessly lax (but now, belatedly, are undergoing revision), he signed up Imhausen-Chemie as chief subcontractor for the project. Intelligence officials say Barbouti's newly opened offices in Hong Kong helped arrange a complex scheme by which material was sent to Imhausen's representative in Hong Kong and transshipped to Rabta. In this way, they explain, Barbouti managed to avoid arousing suspicions about Gaddafi's real intent...
...relationship between Unisys, Armtec and Congressman Bill Chappell Jr., a Florida Democrat ^ who is chairman of the House Appropriations Committee's subcommittee on defense. Chappell persuaded Armtec to locate in his district and supported the MK-92 radar system, which is built by Unisys with Armtec as a subcontractor...
...Canadian officials, the Soviet diplomats had sought to infiltrate the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the Canadian Security and Intelligence Service, the country's civilian counter-espionage agency. But the most sensitive target was Montreal-based Paramax Electronics, a subsidiary of the U.S. defense contractor Unisys and the prime subcontractor on a frigate- building project for the Canadian navy. In that role, Paramax has access to highly classified American technology involving radar and sonar capabilities and computers that control shipboard weapons systems...
...agency's renewed interest in safety is due in part to a $5.2 million lawsuit filed last year by Sylvia Robins, a systems engineer at a subsidiary of Rockwell International, the shuttle's principal contractor, and Ria Solomon, a former worker at Unisys, a subcontractor. Both claimed they were victims of corporate retaliation for whistle blowing. Charges that there were serious lapses in safety, quality control and security have been substantiated in a two-month investigation by a House Science, Space and Technology subcommittee. It also found that in 1986 and 1987 NASA and its contractors may have cut corners...
Sylvia Robins is a former systems engineer for Unisys, a subcontractor that develops much of the computer software in Houston used to control virtually every switch and nozzle on the complex space vehicle. Two years ago, she was a highly rated section supervisor in charge of managing the software that had been updated to reflect changes in the shuttle's mission and design. In March 1986, two months after the Challenger tragedy, she was approached for help by software experts at Rockwell International, the shuttle's prime contractor. They asked her to find out whether Unisys had an adequate system...