And they may have no choice but to turn to American suppliers, because the global contractors are all based there.
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.
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.
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.
The deal, one of the largest defense industry combinations since the industry consolidated in the 1990s, would stiffen Northrop's position in satellite communications and missile systems and make it one of the top global defense contractors.
In the global bioeconomy, independent contractors are contractors of their 'biological capital', obliged to assume both the economic and corporeal risks of the biomedical innovation economy".
The company said the job reductions amount to about 5percentt of its global staffing, including contractors.
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.
