On August 18, 2009
England Continues Plan To Privatize Military Training
The United Kingdom’s military is much smaller then the United States and as a force multiplier they have moved to maximize the privatization of support functions. They already have spun off their test organizations and facilities into QinetiQ as well as selling their ammunition plants to BAE. One of their more ambitious programs is to privatize all types of training from flight to maintenance to weapon systems. QintetiQ formed a consortium of various companies to handle this task. This new company is called Metrix and was awarded a contract worth up to $20 billion dollars to handle the task. Part of the contract was to rehabilitate and run the former military facilities and Metrix was going to borrow money to…
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