Those assets would possibly be purchased by a company that was interested in actually running an air service company. If the airframes were still flying (as they would be in the West as nothing viable to replace them at a similar cost structure) then the engineers, cabin crew and pilots would still find work.
Cobham never really wanted NJS/QL they wanted the surveillance work as it aligns with the Cobham group core business.
Whichever way this goes NJS will change hands in the next two years. Probably a good thing, to be owned by someone with air service experience. Cobham do not have this experience and have had the wool pulled over their eyes by an ego driven and very ambitious CEO who is using his FIRST management job as a springboard into bigger and better things.
http://www.cobham.co.uk