Saudi Arabia: DRS Technologies and Iraq security fence projectnote

All the Saudi contracting companies bidding for the Saudi project to build a security fence along the Saudi border with Iraq are teaming up with foreign defence contractors to increase their chances to win it. The following 236-word article, published in Tactical Report Weekly Brief’s issue of May 9, 2008, focuses on one of the foreign contractors, which is DRS Technologies: where it stands among foreign bidders and with which companies it is expected to compete. The article names two of its main competitors. It also mentions some of the reasons that stand behind delaying the awarding of contracts.