Noticias de la industria

[blackjack]

Triple Canopy (o el ejército ugandés "B" ) se lo está montando muy bien ultimamente llevándose unos cuantos contratos.

Va a haber que ir mirando que tal funcionan...

[Loopster]

¿Triple Canopy ejército ugandés B? ¿Y las bases que protegen SOC, Sabre y EODT entonces que son? ¿barrios muy en el extrarradio de Kampala

Va a ser interesante porque el contrato de Triple Canopy es el de PSD, con lo que el personal tiene que ser yanqui, lo que vuelve a poner problemas con el tema de los visados.

[pcaspeq]

Preparaos que el MDE va a externalizar servicios (tono ironico)

http://www.libertaddigital.com/nacional ... 276426641/

Extraigo esto que me ha llamado la atencion...
el JEME defendió la externalización de "servicios no críticos" porque ello, además de ahorrar, permite a los soldados centrarse en la Fuerza.

Asimismo, aprovechó para estimular el trabajo "conjunto" de la administración y las empresas y comentó que la "externalización perfecta" se consiguió con la UTE dedicada al vestuario militar porque se ha logrado ahorrar dos millones de euros.

Me da que van a cambiar ciertas cosas en un par de años

[cbll]

Creo que ha habido un problema de tallaje o de patronaje de la ropa?

[tarraco218]

No sabia muy bien donde colocarlo, pero creo que los de Triple Canopy, ya que habláis de ellos, andan algo perdidos o les interesa exagerar la delincuencia en España...

http://www.claytonconsultants.com/resou ... ries/spain


Spain
A heightened threat of terrorism remains in Spain. In December 2009, the Spanish government raised the nation’s terrorism threat level to a “likely risk” of attack probably in response to suspected Euskadi Ta Askatasuna (ETA) planning. The group’s last major attack was in December 2006, but there are indications that the group is assuming a higher profile. ETA claimed credit for a bombing that killed two Spanish Civil Guard officers in Majorca in July 2009.

In addition, extortions from businesspeople in the Basque Country and Navarra have been ETA’s main source of revenue for many years. Street crime continues to be a persistent threat in parts of Spain, especially tourist areas. There have also been instances where criminals disguised as police or civil guards committed petty crimes against tourists.

Express kidnappings, with relatively low ransom demands, have doubled to over 100 per year.

Last updated on 07 November 2010

[Loopster]

Contratistas haciendo de QRF, CSAR, fuego de contrabatería, misiones de rescate in-extremis...

In support of President Obama’s plans to withdraw troops from Afghanistan, Secretary of State Hilary Clinton said that now what’s needed is a “diplomatic surge.” But as more civilians are deployed to conflict zones and other high threat areas, the need for adequately trained Bureau of Diplomatic Security (DS) personnel increases as well. The planned troop withdrawal – 10,000 from Afghanistan by the end of this year – will leave many roles currently filled by U.S. troops to diplomatic security. Nintey percent of the DS workforce are private security contractors. It’s possible that in the near future, combat-type missions could be coming to private security contractors as their responsibilities increase to include tasks like recovering downed aircraft, IED evaluation, and rocket and mortar countermeasures.

At a Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs hearing Wednesday afternoon, a Government Accountability Office (GAO) official expressed concerns that the State Department’s diplomatic security operations may not be ready for the challenge. GAO suggestions on training shortfalls, given in a 2009 report on the state of diplomatic security, have not been acted on, and DS lacks a system to evaluate the overall effectiveness or keep track of individual training, Jess T. Ford, director, International Affairs and Trade Issues, GAO, said at the hearing.

Eric J. Boswell, assistant secretary of State for diplomatic security acknowledged that the bureau was strained, but said substantial progress was being made toward preparing DS for a heightened role as the withdrawal progressed. “The scope and scale of our responsibilities have grown immensely in response to threats…. We now operate in places where in the past we would have closed the post and evacuated personnel,” he said. Boswell said DS would be dramatically increasing the number of security personnel at posts and increasing the use of contractors to function in capacity in roles that are “not mainstream Department of State functions.”

What DS lacks many military capabilities, like intelligence collection and deterrence, he hopes will be supplied by local contractors and security forces. “We are not an offensive unit…. As Iraq stabilizes as a nation we’re going to rely on the Iraqi police for these functions to the maximum extent that we can,” he said. Boswell noted that DS personnel have been providing security to their posts in Baghdad for more than a year without U.S. military help.

In 2009, GAO recommendations mainly addressed management of DS saying the bureau's growth had been more reactive than it was strategic and needed to come up with an effective management plan.

Two years later and the concerns are somewhat the same. DS training facilities are highly decentralized and “many are substandard and have a number of inadequacies,” Ford said. Often they share facilities with other agencies who don’t share the same priorities. DS has to rotate portions of their firearms training around Marine training at a facility in Quantico, for example. Ford said that during research for the most recent GAO report, structures weren’t adequate to provide realistic training to staff. A building entry exercise took place in a facility that didn’t have walls, for example. Tape on the floor was used to simulate where a wall would be, he said.

DS was provided $136 million to build a consolidated training center, but they still haven’t found an adequate location to break ground.

Boswell noted that some improvements have been made since the last the last report. In 2009, GAO said it would be beneficial for DS to make sure more personnel were trained in the languages of countries they operated. In 2009, only 47 percent of posts had language proficient personnel. That number is now 60 percent, Boswell said.

GAO recommendations this time around include developing a process the evaluate training through participant evaluations, developing a process to track individual training requirements, and increasing the number of personnel completing Foreign Affairs Counter Threat training.

[pcaspeq]

CSAR?

Buenos personajes estaran dentro de los equipos, buenos personajes...

Envidia sana

[Loopster]

Cuando ha habido derribos o accidentes con helicopteros, alguna empresa se encargaba de sus propios asuntos. No por gusto, sencillamente tardaban menos porque bastaba con que una sola persona autorizara la salida del equipo CSAR. Con la salida de las unidades militares solo van a estar ellos, si o si.

[blackjack]

-Off Topic-

No sabía exactamente donde colocar este mensaje, así que a expensas de que la moderación lo traslade o lo borre lo dejo aquí.

Desde hace un tiempo vengo observando la aparicion de foreros de aquí en CPW Forum.
Y no soy el único de aquí que se ha dado cuenta
Unos cuantos han inflado una barbaridad los CVs. Todo el mundo los adorna, pero es que algunos se pasan.
No os aconsejo que hagáis eso. Os pillan seguro cuando chequeen el historial y se os cerrarán puertas para siempre. Entraréis en la lista negra de la compañía, y estas listas suelen rular entre distintas empresas.

La gente de allí no es tonta. Si pones que has sido reservista en el Regimiento de Pistolos Aeroanfibios 16 (por ejemplo) y que has hecho misiones en Iraq o Afganistan con la OTAN, la ONU el FBI y GI JOE pues... Como que no te van a tomar en serio
Por cierto, a los anglosajones les suele importar un pito cuantas maniobras has hecho, les importan los "tours oficiales". Lo otro se le supone a todo hijo de vecino que se alista.

Otro consejo, si no controláis bien el inglés cuidado con usar traductores on-line ya que os lo traducirá literalmente y no en "inglés técnico". Por lo que nos podemos encontrar perlas del tipo:
Trabajo de escort, o tengo el curso de hunter parachute , o Spanish Land Army, etc...

Esto son solo un par de consejos, así que lentejas...

[kilo009]

Mal uso de fondos del Congreso de EEUU en la privatización de servicios:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/ ... ews&rpc=71

-The United States has wasted some $34 billion on service contracts with the private sector in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
-The source said more than 200,000 contractors have been on the U.S. payroll at times in Iraq and Afg