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<p align="center" class="style17">Table of Contents<br>
25th International Workshop - Rome '08</p>
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<a href="/2008book/weissinger-preface.html">Preface- Dr. Roger<br>Weissinger-Baylon<br>Workshop Chairman<br></a>
<a href="/2008book/weissinger-overview.html">Workshop Chairman's Overview - Dr. Roger Weissinger-Baylon</a>
<a href="/2008book/joulwan.html">Opening Dinner Debate - <br>General George Joulwan<br>Former SACEUR</a>
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<p align="center" class="style17">Part One<p>
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<a href="/2008book/la-russa.html">Italian Defense Minister<br />
Ignazio La Russa
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<a href="/2008book/browne.html">British Defense Minister<br />
The Rt Hon Des Browne
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<a href="/2008book/gonul.html">Turkish Defense Minister<br />
Vecdi G�n�l
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<a href="/2008book/di-paola.html">NATO Military Committee Chairman<br />
Admiral Giampaolo Di Paola
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<a href="/2008book/zappata.html">Admiral Luciano Zappata<br />
Dep Supreme Allied
Commander Transformation
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<a href="/2008book/camporini.html">Italian Chief of Defense<br />
General Vincenzo Camporini
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<a href="/2008book/zappa.html">Alenia Aeronautica Chairman<br />
Dr. Giorgio Zappa
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<br>Part Two<br>
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<a href="/2008book/baramidze.html">Georgian Vice Prime Minister<br />
Giorgi Baramidze
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<a href="/2008book/chizhov.html">Russian Amb to EU<br />
Vladimir Chizhov
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<br>Part Three<br>
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<a href="/2008book/eldon.html">British Amb to NATO<br />
Stewart Eldon
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<a href="/2008book/akram.html">Pakistan's Amb to U.N.<br />
Munir Akram
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<a href="/2008book/de-la-sabliere.html">French Amb to Italy<br />
Jean-Marc de la Sabli�re
</a>
<a href="/2008book/tkeshelashvili.html">Georgian Foreign Minister<br />
Eka Tkeshelashvili
</a>
<a href="/2008book/stefanini.html">Italian Amb to NATO<br />
Stefano Stefanini
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<a href="/2008book/buzhinsky.html">Lt Gen Evgeniy Buzhinsky<br />
Russian Min of Defense
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<a href="/2008book/winid.html">Polish Amb to NATO<br />
Boguslaw Winid
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<br>Part Four<br>
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<a href="/2008book/tegnelia.html">DTRA Director<br />
Dr. James Tegnelia
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<a href="/2008book/rood.html">U.S. Under Sec of State<br />
John Rood
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<a href="/2008book/joseph.html">Former Under Sec of State<br />
Amb Robert Joseph</a>
<a href="/2008book/berdennikov.html">Russian Amb-at-large<br />
Grigory V. Berdennikov
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<a href="/2008book/benkert.html">U.S. Asst Sec of Defense<br />
Joseph Benkert
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<a href="/2008book/flory.html">NATO Asst Sec Gen<br />
Peter Flory
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<a href="/2008book/sedivy.html">NATO Asst Sec Gen<br />
Jiri Sedivy
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<a href="/2008book/pfirter.html">OPCW Dir Gen<br />
Amb Rogelio Pfirter
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<br>Part Five<br>
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<a href="/2008book/lather.html">SHAPE Chief of Staff<br />
General Karl-Heinz Lather
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<a href="/2008book/fitzgerald.html">Admiral Mark. P. Fitzgerald
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Allied Joint Force Command Naples
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<a href="/2008book/ildem.html">Turkish Amb to NATO<br />
Tacan Ildem
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<a href="/2008book/schuwirth.html">Fmr SHAPE Chief of Staff<br />
General Rainer Schuwirth
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<a href="/2008book/acosta.html">Global Impact CEO<br />
Ms. Renee Acosta
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<a href="/2008book/soligan.html">Lt Gen James Soligan<br />
Allied Command-Transformation
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<a href="/2008book/bagnall.html">Former UK Vice Chief of Defense Staff<br />
ACM Sir Anthony Bagnall
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<br>Part Six
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<a href="/2008book/volkman.html">U.S. Dir of Internat. Coop.<br />
Alfred Volkman
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<a href="/2008book/tozzi.html">Major General Claudio Tozzi<br />
Italian Defense Ministry
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<a href="/2008book/homberg.html">EADS Senior Vice Pres<br />
Thomas Homberg
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<a href="/2008book/shephard.html">Northrop Grumman VP<br />
Mr. Timothy Shephard
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<a href="/2008book/buckley.html">Thales Senior VP<br />
Dr. Edgar Buckley
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<a href="/2008book/harris.html">Lockheed Martin Global Pres.<br />
Dr. Scott A. Harris
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<a href="/2008book/schneider.html">AFCEA CEO<br />
Kent Schneider
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<a href="/2008book/patterson.html">Mr. David Patterson<br />
Univ of Tennessee
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<p align="center" class="style17">Part Seven
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<a href="/2008book/grimes.html">U.S. Asst Sec of Def<br />
Hon. John G. Grimes
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<a href="/2008book/lentz.html">U.S. Dep Asst Sec of Def<br />
Robert Lentz
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<a href="/2008book/aaviksoo.html">Estonian Defense Minister<br />
Jaak Aaviksoo
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<a href="/2008book/bloechl.html">Microsoft, Managing Dir.<br />
Tim Bloechl
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<a href="/2008book/wolf.html">Lt Gen Ulrich Wolf<br />
NATO CIS Service Agency Dir
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<a href="/2008book/monteforte.html">Italian Milrep to NATO<br />
Vice Adm Ferdinando Sanfelice di Monteforte
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<a href="/2008book/lintonen.html">Finnish Amb to UN<br />
Kirsti Lintonen
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<a href="/2008book/silvestri.html">Dr. Stefano Silvestri<br />
Istituto Affari Internazionali
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<a href="/2008book/yousfi.html">Algerian Amb to UN<br />
Youcef Yousfi
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<a href="/2008book/karem.html">Egyptian Amb to EU<br />
Mahmoud Karem
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<a href="/2008book/tarasyuk.html">Former Ukrainian Foreign Minister<br />
Borys Tarasyuk
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Comments on Recent Developments </h1>
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Mr. Timothy Shephard</h2>
<h2 style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;">Northrop Grumman Vice President </h2>
<h2 style="margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0;"><img src="images/shephard.jpg" alt="Mr. Timothy Shephard" width="154" height="185"></h2>
<h2 style="margin-top: 0;">OPENING REMARKS </h2>
<p>
It has consistently been my contention that the necessary symbiosis of
politics and procurement trends in the United States is toward utility
for the end user first and to political considerations, though omnipresent,
second. At stake presently, however, is the perception of political procurement,
in which U.S. government prerogatives to attach ITAR principles of export
controls for non-U.S. technology exported to undesirable third countries
is best justified by the promise of access to America’s unsurpassed defense
acquisition budget. </p>
<p>
I warmed immediately to Des Browne when he said that he believed in politics—he
made me feel that he saw the value of his personal investments in time
and effort. I would like to say something similar without undue irony,
which is that I believe in the military-industrial complex. In addition
to earthquakes, floods, and fires, the Old Testament Book of Revelations
cites the occurrence of opposites coexisting as a physical paradox at the
end of days. It is like dogs and cats living together in apparent harmony,
the tallest guy in the National Basketball Association being from China,
the U.S. Democratic Party declaring itself the champion of no big contracts,
and congressional doves posing as born-again nationalists for domestic
political purposes. </p>
<h2>DEVELOPMENTS IN THE TANKER COMPETITION </h2>
<p>
I would now like to draw your attention to a few matters of record. That
there has been a tanker competition at all is the direct result of the
2004 lobbyist activities to push through funding for a massive sole-source
contract and for the Defense Appropriations Sub-Committee to bar competitors.
Those tactics comprised the largest-ever congressional earmark allowing
a contract to side-step normal contract and competition rules. The resulting
investigation by the Senate Armed Services Committee saw significant consequences
for several individuals, both in industry and in the civilian arm of the
acquisition process. </p>
<p>
Subsequently, a Northrop-EADS bid to bring 48,000 jobs to the American
south was questioned by nativist elements in America who championed a competitor’s
bid. That competitor would build or source much of its own tankers outside
America, principally in Europe, ironically, through its commercial partnerships
there, but the bid may paradoxically include component subsystems from
as far away as China. I refer you again to my Book of Revelations. </p>
<p>
In the end, any thoughtful person will find it difficult to see the benefit
from a delay in getting new versions of critical defense infrastructure
online, infrastructure that directly impacts the ability to keep airborne
and operational the air cover and persistent surveillance available to
the groundfighter and that has direct impact on the mortality rate of all
of our soldiers. </p>
<p>
The events playing out are being set back, and we feel it as a physical
blow to our coalition troops, who are stuck fighting two hard 21<SUP>st</SUP>-century
wars with Eisenhower air tankers. That brings me back to my ruminations
on the military-industrial complex. It was Eisenhower himself who warned
of the military-industrial complex’s potentially corrosive impact on American
society and government. His comments in 1961 were made in the context of
the times, a post-atomic world firmly in the grip of the Cold War, when
Orwell’s famous first seminal work, <I>1984</I>, announced that war is peace.
I am now reminded of the political rhetoric in Orwell’s second most popular
double-think missive: that ignorance is strength. These words are now in
danger of applying to any government procurement process, be it in America
or Europe, where protected industry is championed on the basis of sovereignty
and nationalism at the expense of effectiveness and truth. And we may yet
be defined by the ultimate double-think term: that freedom is slavery. </p>
<p>
I think the U.S. system is based on the rule of law, and I urge my colleagues
at this workshop to hold faith that our system will run its course and
that we will end up with the best solution. I can hope for nothing less. </p>
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