Main headlines from this issue

S. Korea publishes 2008 guidelines – “Past offset performances to comply with revised guidelines”

South Korea's Defence Acquisition Program Administration (DAPA) has released the country's revised defence offset program guidelines. The guidelines are backdated to January 24, 2008, even though they were only published this month...

Franco-Spanish industrial co-operation for UAVs

Indra Sistemas, a leading Spanish Information Technology and Defence Systems company, has signed an industrial cooperation agreement covering Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Medium-Altitude Long-Endurance (MALE UAV) activities with Dassault Aviation and Thales...

Transparency International gets worked up over “Sleazy Offsets”

In an unusual diversion for an offset conference, Mark Pyman, Transparency International’s Defence
Anti-Corruption Program Director, told the recently-held global industrial cooperation event in Seville that most of the action happens long after the contract award, when press and media scrutiny has long since moved on...

S. Korea sponsors intellectual commodity barters

South Korea’s Ministry of Knowledge Economy said that three countries were being considered for an ‘information-technology-for-natural-resources’ development deal. The countries were not identified. \Local companies can provide these countries with know-how and equipment to set up e-government infrastructures and automated systems to better control such administrative processes as public procurement and customs\" said an official. In exchange for such services foreign countries could give South Korean firms development rights to natural resources...

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