In article ,
Strobe writes:
On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 19:22:34 +0100, "Col"
wrote:

How many of the general public have heard of Qinetiq?
I'll bet to most people it's just another daft made up corporate name they
will quickly forget and in a month will associate with nothing at all.
I only know of them because my parents have just moved to within a few
hundred yards of their Malvern site.

A government "agency", but whose money was it that actually paid for
all this hot air... or should that be helium.? !!
Steve

QinetiQ is no longer a government agency. It represents the part of the
former DERA that was privatised, and is now part of the Carlyle Group
IIRC. So it won't have been public money that was spent.
--
John Hall
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the pleasures of the other."
From "Emma" by Jane Austen (1775-1817)