The New MilitaryIndustrialSpace Complex

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The New Military-Industrial-Space Complex

• Its not just bending metal any more!

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The Three Pillars of Military Research
Government Agencies
Private Corporations
Academic Research Orgs.
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Focus on the Corporation
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Supporting the warfighter
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Two Types of Military Support Corporations

• Mil-Aero Project Contractor cannot support
  direct war efforts by Geneva conventions
• Private Military Contractor corporatized
  mercenary (DynCorp, Blackwater) cf. Corporate
  Warriors by P.W. Singer

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Two Types of Military Contractors

• Metal Benders Large integrated manufacturers of
  weapons and space systems
• Engineering Think Tanks Prime contractors who
  design and plan global weapons and intelligence
  systems

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Big Metal Benders

• Lockheed-Martin (37B, 21B for mil.)
• Boeing (54.8B, 18.4B for mil.)
• Northrop-Grumman (30.7B, 12B mil.)
• General Dynamics (9.9B)
• Raytheon (8.5B)

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Big Think Tanks

• SAIC (2.2B)
• Carlyle Group (1.1B)
• Booz Allen Hamilton (909m)
• Titan Corp. (953m)
• MITRE (555m)

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Size Matters - Negatively

• Metal benders are 10X size of think tanks
• They are only 1/3 as profitable
• Metal benders dont want to build stuff any more!

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The 21st Century Corporation

• Outsource everything manufacturing no longer
  matters, and may be liability!
• Go virtual make your units a jigsaw puzzle with
  very few physical buildings
• Implications Congress worries about Alcatel
  buying Lucent, IBM turning over laptops to
  Lenovo, when half of Lockheeds classified
  software is written in India or China

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The 21st Century Government

• Outsource everything, make bases remotely or
  robotically operated
• Example CFIOG Masset, Queen Charlotte Islands,
  BC the only North American elephant cage left,
  no humans, sponsored by Raytheon!
• Example NRO Buys 30 percent of its satellite
  imagery from private satellite cos.
• Example Buckley AFB (NRO/NSA intelligence base
  in Denver) all the growth in the private
  periphery

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Buckley Air Force BaseColorado
Citizens for Peace in Space
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• Suspected illegal workers arrested at military
  housing siteAgents, who loaded the 120 rounded
  up at Buckley Air Force Base onto buses bound for
  the border, vow to hold contractors
  accountable.By Bruce Finley Denver Post Staff
  Writer

Buckley Air Force Base - Black-clad federal
immigration agents surrounded a military housing
construction site at sunrise Wednesday and
arrested 120 illegal workers from Mexico and
Central America within a mile of top-secret
global surveillance and missile early-warning
facilities. This was a matter of national
security, federal agents said, because only a
fence separated the unauthorized immigrants from
a crucial military listening post.
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Government Who Orders This Stuff?
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The Major Players in Space

• Air Force Procures for Space Command, etc.
  Strategic Command management for space
• Missile Defense Agency - 8B a year for missile
  defense
• National Reconnaissance Office - 8B a year for
  spy satellites (used in warfighting)
• National Security Agency -- 5B a year in
  intelligence support operations
• DARPA - 2B year space research
• TENCAP, TIARA tactical intelligence budget
  hidden, 12B a year

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The False Dichotomy

• Militarization of space vs. Weaponization of
  space
• Just because space already has become fully
  militarized from a communications and
  intelligence perspective, does not mean peace
  activists should accept those platforms that
  provide a destabilizing influence in space

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The Real Test

• Does this particular satellite (launch vehicle,
  ground station) play a role in preserving a
  stabilizing influence, or a dominating,
  warfighting influence?
• 60 to 75 percent of U.S. space platforms fail
  this test

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The Banality of Evil

• The most dangerous programs are the most mundane
  Talon, Forward Operating Locations (Plan
  Colombia, Afghanistan), etc. trump the space
  warfare games at JNTC.
• Activists either remain blissfully unaware of key
  programs, or wake up 20 years late in a state of
  shock
• America leads the world in shock
• --Gil-Scott Heron

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If your only tool is a hammer, all problems look
like nails.

• If the hammer doesnt work in first instance,
  bring in new tools, but keep pounding that hammer
  like a 4-year-old on a noise rampage.

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Déjà vu all Over Again
Theres Nothing New Here, Folks BMD Dates
to Nike programs of 1950s NSA Founded in
1952, maintained Echelon-like systems since
1956-58 NRO Founded in 1960, imaging since
1962, ELINT since early 1970s Space Command
Founded in 1983 USSC now replaced by AFSC
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Space 101 - MDA and Affiliates

• Approximately 103 billion spent on missile
  defense since 1982 Bush wants 8B for 2007
• Some of MDA support budget hidden in development
  of missiles, X-band radar, early-warning radar
  upgrades
• Add in cost of high-energy laser programs
  (airborne, space-based) - currently 200 million,
  slated to expand
• Add in cost of Army, Navy programs TMD could
  have unexpectedly large ramp

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MDA and Affiliates -What Gets Counted?

• Navy AEGIS - Do all battleship upgrades, SPY-1
  radar upgrades, and SM-1/SM-3 missiles count as
  BMD? If not, why not?
• AF specialty radar - highly-classified
  surveillance devices for intelligence AND
  missile-defense Vardo, Norway Niihau, Hawaii -
  just because you dont know about it doesnt mean
  you dont pay!

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Moss Sirius The Sea-Based X-Band Radar
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The Skinny on Moss Sirius

• Prime Contractor Raytheon
• Height 280 feet
• Length 380 feet
• Cost At least 900 million
• This sat in Pearl Harbor from Jan. to May 2006,
  dwarfing all battleships, and activists were
  oblivious to its BMD role, its warfighting role,
  and its PacRim role!

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Academia Giving Everything an Educational Veneer
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Academias Role

• University Technology Incubators funnel for
  DARPA, HSARPA (Homeland Sec) - example UCCS
  Technology Incubator and 10 million DHS grant
• University partnerships with DoD, defense
  contractors, intelligence agencies example
  UCCS Network Information and Space Security
  Center (http//www.nissc.org)

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Military-Industry-Education Partnerships Partners
hips in Crime Partnerships in War Partnerships in
Dominance
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Implications for Defense Contractor Research

• Follow the programs/money who are the primes
  for a specific program, who are the
  subcontractors?
• Military bases largest contractors will be
  logistics Haliburton/KBR for cafeteria, housing
  management, etc. next largest will be primes
  and subprimes for major programs ex. Orbital
  Sciences for ground- based missiles at Vandenberg

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Sea based interceptor Aegis destroyer
GN Protest at Bath Iron Works
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AEGIS Not just a ship

• Naval vessel, but program managed by Air Force
  for its TMD uses
• SM-3 missile, SPY-1 radar are as important as
  ship itself
• Forward-basing provocation is as important as the
  missile-defense equipment
• TMD is a war-fighting program

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Space Weapons The Obvious

• COIL, Airborne Laser, Space-Based Laser

High-Energy Laser Test Facility, White Sands,
NM Airborne Laser, Kirtland AFB, NM
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Space Weapons The Subtle

• Starfire Optical Range, NM

Since space-based laser battle stations are too
heavy and expensive, ground-based lasers aimed at
orbiting mirrors may be preferred way to go!
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Space Weapons Supporting Actors

• Space Warfare Center, Schriever AFB, Co

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Joint National Integration Center, Schriever

• Northrop-Grumman as prime
• Integrates BMD, space warfare

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Welcoming the Newcomers to Town SI International
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Space Weapons Supporting Actors

• Buckley Air Force Base, Colo.

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Outside at Lockheed
Inside the Aerospace Data Facility, NSA
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NSA Storage System Freedom Brought to you by
Lockheed at Buckley Field!
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The Secret BusinessOf Building Spy
Buildings By Michael Corkery From The Wall
Street Journal Online
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Tracking programs using annual reports, 10k
filings
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Unilateralisms Other LegMulti-Tiered Missile
Defense A Totally Offensive Option

• Bring up McNamaras view of ABM, and show how it
  applies to space-based, air-based, ground-based,
  and theater BMD
• From weapons in space to sailing into Korean
  harbors, its all about warfighting
• Make the connections for regional theaters, such
  as Pacific Rim (Alaska, Vandenberg, Hawaii,
  Kwajalein, Korea)

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Gen. Kevin Chilton from Stratcom Space and
Global Strike Command to AF Space Command June
26, 2006
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Lockheed-Martins Critical Role in Space Strike
RATTLRS Revolutionary Approach to Time-Critical
Long-Range Strike Lockheeds effort to create
a Mach-3 ramjet dwelling strike platform
for Cruise missiles, UAVs coming to a StratCom
base near you!
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Missile Defense Agency Contractors

• Boeing (prime for many projects)
• Raytheon
• Lockheed-Martin
• Northrop Grumman
• Orbital Sciences
• Bechtel
• Teledyne Brown

• Ball Aerospace
• ATK
• Booz Allen Hamilton
• SAIC
• SEI
• 3D Research

... And thousands more, many near you!
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Washington Beltway Think Tanks?

• Union of Concerned Scientists gets it space
  militarization, corporate connections, hazards of
  unilateralism
• Center for Defense Information useful for info,
  but needs a prod in recognizing offensive
  doctrine
• Stimson Center useful in ASAT policy, but seems
  to like precision warfare!

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Global Surveillance
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Fylingdales, England Early-Warning Radar and
Direct Star Wars Support Considered
for Interceptor Missiles Until MDA Admitted
Population is too adversarial.
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Menwith Hill
NSA Spy base Yorkshire (Harrogate-Otley), Englan
d
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Menwith Hill Integrated NSA-NRO Spy Base, Star
Wars Work, Advanced Radar Its All
Connected And Activists Understand
That Connection!
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Nebraskans for Peace recognize STRATCOMs brash
PR is the activists best friend! Space and
Global Strike component command of STRATCOM,
formed Aug. 9, 2005, explicitly calls for use of
space in offensive planetary warfare
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US Strategic Command STRATCOM
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STRATCOM headquarters Offutt AFB Nebraska
Omaha SOS Challenges New Offensive STRATCOM
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Theoretical function
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Ground based interceptor placement
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No Nukes North
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Vandenberg Space Command
Santa Barbara County California
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Kwajalein atoll in the Marshall Islands
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An exoatmospheric kill vehicle (mid-phase) is
launched from Kwajalein atoll
Example of Denial Raytheon Tucson Who, us?
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Pacific Missile Range Facility Barking Sands
Kauai, Hawaii
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Sea Based X Band Radar enters Pearl Harbor,
Hawaii
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Sources of Hope and Inspiration

• The best policy studies emerge from the grass
  roots

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Los Alamos Disarmament Center
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LASG
WSLF
Tri Valley Cares
Natural Resources Defense Council
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Contractor studies from Womens International
League for Peace and Freedom serve as guide to
corporate studies