back to home

 

Business and Human Rights: a resource website

 

   Consulting companies   

See also the following sections of this website:

NEW (recent additions to this section; top item is most recent addition)
Total Business Awareness: The Corporate Contracting Behind John Poindexter’s Total Information Awareness Program [USA] - The Total Information Awareness System, the controversial Pentagon research program that aims to gather and analyze a vast array of information on people in the United States, has hired at least eight private companies to work on the effort...The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which oversees the Total Information Awareness System (TIA), awarded 13 contracts to Booz Allen & Hamilton amounting to more than $23 million. Lockheed Martin Corporation had 23 contracts worth $27 million. The Schafer Corporation had nine contracts totaling $15 million. Other prominent contractors involved in the TIA program include SRS Technologies, Adroit Systems, CACI Dynamic Systems, Syntek Technologies and ASI Systems International...Grassley [Senator Charles E. Grassley] questioned the parameters and scope of TIA, how Poindexter was selected to head it, and what protections are in place to ensure civil liberties are not violated...Senator Dianne Feinstein, D-California, says that she plans to introduce legislation to address any threats to privacy rights that TIA poses.. (Adam Mayle and Alex Knott, Center for Public Integrity, in Multinational Monitor, Jan./Feb. 2003)

Websites:

Other materials:

2003:

Total Business Awareness: The Corporate Contracting Behind John Poindexter’s Total Information Awareness Program [USA] - The Total Information Awareness System, the controversial Pentagon research program that aims to gather and analyze a vast array of information on people in the United States, has hired at least eight private companies to work on the effort...The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), which oversees the Total Information Awareness System (TIA), awarded 13 contracts to Booz Allen & Hamilton amounting to more than $23 million. Lockheed Martin Corporation had 23 contracts worth $27 million. The Schafer Corporation had nine contracts totaling $15 million. Other prominent contractors involved in the TIA program include SRS Technologies, Adroit Systems, CACI Dynamic Systems, Syntek Technologies and ASI Systems International...Grassley [Senator Charles E. Grassley] questioned the parameters and scope of TIA, how Poindexter was selected to head it, and what protections are in place to ensure civil liberties are not violated...Senator Dianne Feinstein, D-California, says that she plans to introduce legislation to address any threats to privacy rights that TIA poses.. (Adam Mayle and Alex Knott, Center for Public Integrity, in Multinational Monitor, Jan./Feb. 2003)

2001:

Selling sustainable success: A guide to corporate responsibility for consulting and professional services firms (Alok Singh, Dave Prescott & Aidan Davy, Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum, Oct. 2001)