EG&G: another Carlyle Group holding cleaning up on terror

["Charles Jannuzi" <jannuzi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Not too long ago we were discussing (two of us were anyway) EG&G as another
Carlyle Group holding that warranted more investigation.

One EG&G-related story is like something out of the X-Files (an analogy that
comes frequently to mind when you start researching the Carlyle Group).
Apparently their private army out in Nevada went on strike for higher wages.
This part of EG&G provides security to top-secret military facilities north
of Las Vegas. It's hard to see it as a victory for American labor, since it
was an in-house union whose members dress like Serb militia and say things
like, if you find out what I do, I'll have to kill you.

The most interesting part of EG&G (for me anyway) is their lock on airport
x-ray detection equipment. It looks to be a monopoly actually, now that they
have acquired Vivid. Also, more on this later, they apparently have moved
into the area of 'biodetection', an area that will apparently include
tie-ups with Japanese companies because they are the leaders. Still, look
for EG&G and/or another Carlyle Group holding getting the right to market
things like anthrax detectors to the US government.

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