Re: QinetiQ to be sold off
No doubt since 1982 there have been many occasions when BD delivered the goods on time and in a hurry but what I will not forget is that, after the Falklands war, they tried to withdraw all the clearances they had given. The excuse was that they had been hastily given and were therefore intrinsically unsafe. Either they can do it properly in a timely way or they should not have the job at all.
One hopes that employment under contract after the sell-off will present them with penalty clauses so that the cost of under-performance is too much to risk.