{"id":548436,"date":"2006-04-04T12:08:05","date_gmt":"2006-04-04T12:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/548436-lucent-names-ex-security-officials-for-new-us-unit.html"},"modified":"2006-04-04T12:08:05","modified_gmt":"2006-04-04T12:08:05","slug":"lucent-names-ex-security-officials-for-new-us-unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/548436-lucent-names-ex-security-officials-for-new-us-unit.html","title":{"rendered":"Lucent names ex-security officials for new US unit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lucent said the board would be chaired by William Perry, US defence secretary from 1994 to 1997 and currently a professor at Stanford University. <\/font><\/p>\n

The other two board members will be retired lieutenant general Kenneth Minihan, who served as director of the National Security Agency from 1996 to 1999 and as a director of the Defence Intelligence Agency, and James Woolsey, Central Intelligence director from 1993 to 1995. <\/font><\/p>\n

"Both Lucent and Alcatel are trusted, experienced contractors in the defence and national security community, and fully understand the sensitivity and requirements regarding certain classified type of work," Lucent said in a statement. <\/font><\/p>\n

"Consequently, the combined company will form a separate, independent US subsidiary under Bell Labs for certain contracts with US government agencies to ensure that this type of work continues to be performed in the US with the proper safeguards in place." <\/font><\/p>\n

The subsidiary will be separately managed by the board of three US citizens "acceptable to the US government," according to the statement. <\/font><\/p>\n

The new unit is one of a series of details of the deal announced by the two telecom equipment giants on Sunday that will create a $33bn equipment and technology giant. <\/font><\/p>\n

Presented as a merger of equals, the operation is in effect an Alcatel takeover of Lucent. The French firm will have 60% of the capital in the new group which will have its headquarters in France. <\/font><\/p>\n

The activities are concentrated at Lucent’s Bell Laboratories, the oldest American electronics research centre, which was set up in 1925. <\/font><\/p>\n

Bell Labs carried out the first long distance transmission of a television program in 1927 and aims to register at least two copyrights a day from its inventions. <\/font><\/p>\n

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Lucent Technologies yesterday named three former top US security officials to the board of a new unit to be established for sensitive contracts following its planned merger with France’s Alcatel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548436"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}