US probes if Boeing misused Lockheed papers
Washington: In a sensational case involving two rocket giants, the US Justice Department, along with the Pentagon, is probing whether Boeing misused Lockheed Martin's papers, obtained from a rocket scientist it had hired away from Lockheed, in the competition for space-launch business. While the department is investigating whether Boeing illicitly obtained or used the competition-sensitive documents belonging to Lockheed as part of a carefully plotted campaign to win the military contract, an Air Force administrative inquiry is also under way to determine whether to suspend or bar Boeing from certain military work.
Boeing was locked in a fierce competition with Lockheed to become the government's primary maker of rockets for launching spy, communications and other satellites.
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US tech job scene bleak: survey
New York: Technology job hunters will find slim pickings for at least another year, according to a new survey released on Monday.Demand for information technology positions ranging from software programmers to network engineers will hold steady or decline in the next 12 months, according to a telephone poll of 400 hiring managers by the Arlington, Virginia-based Information Technology Association of America."The fact that firms have dramatically scaled back... may indicate that they are properly staffed to handle existing and new business," ITAA president Harris N Miller said.
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