Peter Teets presently serves as the director of the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), undersecretary of the Air Force, and chief procurement officer for all of military space, controlling a budget in excess of $65 billion, a figure that includes $8 billion a year for missile defense and $7 billion annually for NRO spying. Teets, is the former president and chief operating officer of Lockheed Martin who retired from the company in late 1999.
http://portal.lobbyliberal.it/article/articleprint/271To date, it is believed that the NRO has provided slightly more than $500 million each to Lockheed Martin and Boeing.
http://www.webnetarts.com/socialjustice/laertes.htmlTeets is a firm believer in the conclusions of the Rumsfeld Commission's January 2001 report on the military in space, which warns of a "space Pearl Harbor" if the U.S. does not thoroughly dominate all aspects of space.
http://www.webnetarts.com/socialjustice/laertes.htmlIn addition, key lobbyists for Lockheed-Martin, Bruce Jackson, vice president of corporate strategy and development at Lockheed Martin and our intrepid flunky bungler, Stephen Hadley, played central roles in developing space policy for the U.S.
http://portal.lobbyliberal.it/article/articleprint/271"I wrote the Republican Party's foreign policy platform," declared Jackson. His corporation has given over $391,000 to the Republican Party since 1998. Lockheed Martin vice- president Bruce Jackson, who served as chairman of the US Committee to Expand NATO along with Stephen Hadley, was overheard by one of the authors at an industry gathering bragging about how the industry's troubles will be over if GWBush was elected.
http://www.webnetarts.com/socialjustice/laertes.html“Space is going to be important. It has a great feature in the military,” Stephen Hadley, introduced as “an advisor to Governor George W. Bush,” told the Air Force Association Convention in a speech September 11 in Washington. Hadley worked in the past for a law firm that represented Lockheed. Jackson and Hadley have worked closely together on the Committee to Expand NATO. Jackson was president of this entity, based in the Washington offices of the right-wing American Enterprise Institute; Hadley was its secretary. Hadley was also a member of the National Security Council staff during the earlier Bush administration.
http://www.liberationiraq.org/committee_officers.shtml#Bruce%20P.%20JacksonMore ominous was the establishment in the fall of 2002, of the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq (original website expunged)(Chairman of the Board, Bruce Jackson) which engaged in educational and advocacy efforts to mobilize US and international support for policies aimed at ending the regime of Saddam Hussein. This came at the same time that Stephan Hadley and Condi Rice were engaged in a series of briefings of foreign policy groups, Iraq specialists and other opinion makers that was described as a "new phase," by a White House spokesman, who described the goal as building fresh public support for Bush administration policy vs. Iraq.
November 2002 Article-
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/nov2002/iraq-n23.shtmlAlternet Article
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=14547Here's the full report that Rumsfeld engineered to pull the nation back into the space weaponry buisness.
http://www.space.gov/docs/fullreport.pdf Notice the other names, like 'Reconstruction' General Jay Garner.
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