Her father, who works in Maryland, is the owner of Optec, which performs intelligence and reconnaissance contracting services for the Defense Department.
The cases included helping an Israeli manufacturer of pilotless reconnaissance planes win several contracts in return for cash sent to a Swiss bank account and providing confidential information to the Sperry Corporation to win a bid for the Aegis weapons system.
Grønlandsfly also picked up a Danish government contract to fly reconnaissance missions regarding the sea ice around Greenland.
Their operation was dubbed the Southcom Reconnaissance System, and Northrop Grumman held the $8.6 million contract for the work.
In a terse announcement last week, the National Reconnaissance Office, responsible for developing and launching the devices, said only that a Boeing Company contract to provide the next generation of reconnaissance satellites, known as the Future Imagery Architecture, was being "restructured".
Foreign private military companies have reportedly been contracted to provide the DRC's aerial reconnaissance capability using small propeller aircraft fitted with sophisticated equipment.
After Rockwell started replacing the avionics on 300 CH-47 Chinook helicopters, the U.S. Army hired the company to outfit cockpits of 360 new armed reconnaissance choppers being built by Textron's Bell Helicopter unit (a $130 million contract over seven years).
The contracts had been delayed when the collision of a Navy reconnaissance plane and a Chinese fighter jet over the Sea of China early last month raised fears that Beijing might withhold contracts from American companies.
This was a new, privately run info-war, with companies on contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollar supporting the "intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance" (ISR) that makes drones kill.
And General Atomics, which manufactures the reconnaissance drones, wants to double the size of the fleet under a recently awarded contract worth up to $443 million.
A state-owned military contractor, Israeli Aircraft Industries, won a $270 million contract to build a spy satellite for Turkey based on its own Ofek reconnaissance satellite, company officials said yesterday, confirming Turkish news reports.
