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February 19, 2004

The Military/Industrial thing is complex

Okay, Boeing is full of it on this one. How you going to hire someone before they leave your client and then fire them becase you hired them before they left your client?

Recruiting Uncle Sam
The Military Uses a Revolving Door to Defense Jobs

By Renae Merle
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, February 19, 2004; Page E01

George K. Muellner spent more than 30 years in the Air Force, rising eventually to the position of deputy acquisition chief. Now he's the senior vice president of Air Force Systems for Boeing Co.'s defense unit. E.C. "Pete" Aldridge, the Pentagon's chief weapons buyer, resigned in May 2003 and joined the board of the nation's largest defense contractor, Lockheed Martin Corp., a month later.

General Dynamics Corp. got a prized recruit in David Heebner, who was hired in 2000 after more than 30 years in the military, most recently as the Army's assistant vice chief of staff. The company was so pleased to have snagged a member of the top brass that it announced Heebner's hiring a month before his official retirement.

Earlier this month, General Dynamics, which counts the Army among its largest customers, reeled in another veteran: John M. "Jack" Keane, who was named to the company's board. Keane spent 37 years in the Army before retiring as the vice chief of staff.

The career moves of these military veterans created barely a ripple in Washington. Traffic between the Pentagon and the nation's big defense contractors has been busy for as long as anyone can remember. Not until someone gets stuck in the revolving door -- as an Air Force official recently did -- does the debate about its propriety heat up again.

Boeing hired Darleen A. Druyun, the deputy acquisition chief for the Air Force, in January 2003 and then fired her in November for allegedly holding job talks while she was still supervising Boeing contracts. Her role at the Air Force included weighing the government's lease and purchase of Boeing tanker jets potentially worth $17 billion to $18 billion. Boeing also fired its chief financial officer for allegedly concealing the improper discussions and violating its hiring policies.

The Druyun case has put the revolving door under its sharpest scrutiny in years.

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