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Up2Late Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-30-05 11:05 PM
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US firm to land carrier contract (BBC News)
Monday, 31 January, 2005, 01:18 GMT

A project management contract for two Royal Navy aircraft carriers, currently under construction in Scotland, is likely to be handed to a US firm.

The Ministry of Defence (MoD) is expected to confirm that :hi:Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR), part of the Halliburton :grr:group, will oversee the project.

Sections of the massive carriers are being built at BAE's Govan and Scotstoun yards on the Clyde.

These will be assembled later at Babcock's dockyard at Rosyth, in Fife.

Valuable contracts

It is thought the MoD has turned to KBR because of huge cost overruns in recent defence procurement programmes, among them the Eurofighter.
(more at link)
<[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/4220205.stm>]
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merwin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-30-05 11:05 PM
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1. Haliburton... hmm....
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Up2Late Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-30-05 11:12 PM
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2. I say...
GRRRRRR:grr:
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Up2Late Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-31-05 12:26 AM
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3. Kick n/t
:kick:
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Up2Late Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-31-05 09:46 AM
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4. O.K. WTF? So it's O.K. with everyone else that Halliburton won another
Huge Contract? :wtf:Ya think there could be something wrong with this too? :nuke:
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DS1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-31-05 10:03 AM
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5. Hope it has less leaks than the last Bechtel project
aka The Big Dig
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