$6 billion projects started says Lockheed Martin

Lockheed Martin (LM), supplier of the F-16 fighter plane for the Polish Army, assured that it has begun 27 offset projects with their value ex ceeding $6 billion. According to Polish negotiators, none of them have been implemented. "We are happy with the fact that LM decided that the majority of projects had been started. However the Polish side has no documentation confirming this, but it is not necessarly according to the offset contract," said Michał Kleiber, head of the Offset Commission and Minister of Research and Information. This means that the Polish side has no other choice, but to believe the assurances of Lockheed. The company claims that among others, it began implementing a unified telecommunication system for the police and other public services called TETRA. However, the Economy and Labour Ministry claims that the Polish side set up a consortium for this purpose, while its foreign partner had not yet entered it. (Puls Biznesu, pp. 1, 3) M.M.