World Surveillance Group Inc (fka WSGI)

[Renaissance]

Bad news for our friends at JIEDDO:

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/pentagons-counter-ied-force-shrink-two-thirds-year_783443.html

"JIEDDO's current staff of 3,000 will be reduced to 1,000 by the end of this fiscal year, and further plans could see the number fall as low as 400 down the road."

"Some parts of JIEDDO can't be easily scaled. One of the areas he's looking to protect, Johnson said, is the intelligence integration functions of JIEDDO.

"My concern is, right now, we have a fairly persistent look at the organizations that most commonly use IEDs," he said. "If we were to take our eyes off, what are the chances that there would be an adaptation or permutation in the way they use IEDs that we didn't anticipate, and how long for us to catch up?" "