It can cost several million pounds for a global aerospace contractor or airline to put on a big show at Farnborough, so FIL's customers want a big bang for their buck.
David Savner, who graduated from Northwestern's law school in 1968, is a partner at the Chicago-based law firm, Jenner & Block, and was formerly senior vice president, general counsel and secretary at General Dynamics Corp. -- a global defense contractor.
"I think we do very good work in this field, and we're contributing to improving conditions on behalf of our clients," said Randy Rankin, the partner in charge of Pricewaterhouse's global contractor compliance practice.
In the most recent list of the world's biggest global contractors, compiled by an industry newsletter, Chinese companies held four of the top five positions.
And they may have no choice but to turn to American suppliers, because the global contractors are all based there.
John Hillsden, a spokesman for the Institute of Civil Engineers in Britain, said there had been "no assurances or guarantees" that British companies would get postwar reconstruction contracts, but "civil engineering is a global industry, and contractors work together," so there was a good chance that British companies would at least get subcontracts.
The newspaper headlines on that day spoke of what politicians have called a shambles over the security arrangements for the games, outsourced to a huge, global security contractor, G4S, that had been unable to provide the number of personnel it had contracted to train as Olympic staff.
A leaked email from StratFor, a global intelligence company, shows a contractor boasting that the U.S. has an indictment of Assange ready.
Pillay credited Snowden, a former US National Security Agency contractor, with starting a global debate that has led to calls for the curtailing of state powers to snoop on citizens online and store their data.
In Cherokee, Darryl Maggard, the 911 coordinator, spent a year driving around the county with a contractor, marking locations with a global positioning system to create maps.
