Tensions have reached a boiling point now that the agency's employee union has called for a purge of the ESA directorate, headed by Director-General Jean-Marie Luton.
Officials on the merger task force, part of the European competition directorate headed by Commissioner Mario Monti, have already circulated a draft recommendation that calls for rejecting both deals.
NSF's apparent preference for rotators in senior management for example, all six directorate heads are rotators has attracted the attention of its inspector general (IG), an independent watchdog over agency practices.
The United States has already sanctioned six officers from the GRU leadership, including Igor Korobov, the directorate's head.
The Directorate is headed by the Director General of Fisheries, and has three main departments: Resource Management Department, Aquaculture and Coastal Department, and the Statistics Department.
This description should rest in several places so that it can easily be produced upon request (Directorate, Secretariat, heads of departments or sections including Personnel & Organization, as well as the public relations officer).
Although the lion's share of NSF's $7 billion budget flows through its seven research and education directorates, whose heads report to Suresh, nine smaller programs also report directly to him.
All these lists are prepared by the heads of departments and P&O, and should be made available to the directorate, secretariat, and heads of other departments.
The intelligence directorate, which is headed by Ms. Miscik, focuses on analysis, and has historically been prevented from learning much about the identity of intelligence sources.
The MoD's directorate of information, headed by John Taylor, nevertheless went ahead and instructed BT, which has a private contract to manage the military's landlines, to block access to Wikileaks and one of their main servers in Sweden.
