from Jane’s Weekly - 1/9 but I didn’t find it in the archives. Alliot-Marie has been visiting Washington this week and insists all is well between France & the US ....
French Defence Minister Michele Alliot-Marie is to shortly unveil plans to radically overhaul the French armaments board Délégation Générale pour l’Armement (DGA) that will include appointing a replacement for current director Yves Gleizes, official sources in Paris confirmed last week. French Ministry of Defence spokesman Jean-François Bureau said Gleizes would stand down as head of the DGA when Alliot-Marie introduces changes at the agency, probably in late January or early February. Earlier media reports said Gleizes, who has held the DGA post since April 2001, would be replaced by an outside figure tasked with implementing the changes. "The minister wants a new hand at the helm for the reforms," Bureau said. It is thought the main thrust of Alliot-Marie’s overhaul will be to give French armed forces chiefs of staff a greater say in picking and executing France’s weapon projects as well as in handing out allocations. Such a move would strip the DGA of much of its existing powers.
let’s see if this unwinds some of the cronyism |