Another senior defense official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said last week that any change in the complex series of agreements could unravel the entire plan, which was 15 years in the making.

VOA: standard.2009.10.18

An engineer's Ebay, HelloBrain has signed up 17, 000 freelancers in 11 months, 10, 000 of them from outside the U.S. They live in 126 countries--engineers in India and Germany, code-crunchers in the Cook Islands, programmers from the old Soviet defense complex.

FORBES: Hello brain. Good-bye rules.

An engineer's Ebay, HelloBrain has signed up 17, 000 freelancers in 11 months, 10, 000 of them from outside the U.S. They hail from 126 countries--engineers in India and Germany, code-crunchers in the Cook Islands, programmers from the old Soviet defense complex.

FORBES: Hello Brain. Good-bye Rules.

Boeing will do the same in a couple of years when it moves senior defense executives into an office complex in Arlington, Virginia, near the Pentagon.

FORBES: Why Virginia's Become Mecca For Military Contractors