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Business/FinancialPending Defense Request Hits Boeing Hardest, Analysts Say
By Calvin Biesecker Major weapons program recommendations released by the Pentagon this week were basically in line with expectations and the contractor hit the hardest is Boeing [BA], according to […]
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Gates Recommends End To VH-71 Program
By Geoff Fein In a surprise, Defense Secretary Robert Gates yesterday called for terminating Lockheed Martin‘s [LMT] VH-71 presidential helicopter, including the first batch of aircraft that some believed would […]
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Cobham To Acquire U.S. Information Security Firm
By Calvin Biesecker United Kingdom-based Cobham yesterday said it has agreed to acquired Argotek, Inc. for $36.3 million in cash in a deal aimed at bolstering the company’s capabilities and […]
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Special Issue: North Korea Launches ICBM;
Japan, U.S. Forces, Don’t Try To Shoot It Down; Instead, Obama, Others, Frown On Outlaw Launch Illicit North Korean Missile Launch Proves Need For U.S., Japanese Missile Defense; Missile Flight […]
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Transformational Satellite Program Would Die In Fiscal 2010 Gates Plan; $26 Billion At Stake For TSAT
The $26 billion Transformational Satellite, or TSAT, program would die under a new budget plan that Secretary of Defense Robert Gates today unveiled in a news briefing. The Boeing Co. […]
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Tauscher, Skelton, Condemn North Korea For Missile Launch, But They Still Appear Poised To Slash Missile Defense Programs
Their Comments Come As Obama, Gates, Seen Likely To Slash Or Kill Some Missile Defense Programs In Fiscal 2010 Budget Plan Republicans Strongly Oppose Any Move To Gouge Missile Defense […]
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Congressional Reaction To Gates Budget Plan Ranges From Noncommittal To Incredulous, With Missile Defense Cuts Drawing Opposition
Congressional reaction to the new budget plan by Secretary of Defense Robert Gates ranged from polite but reserved, to strident condemnation, especially in his plans to cut some missile defense […]
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Critics Detail Arguments Attacking Missile Defense, Military Procurement Programs, In Congressional Testimony
Assumptions: No One Would Dare Launch Missile At United States; Missile Defense Is Expensive Critics Say There Is No Complete Guarantee That Missile Defense Systems Will Work A House panel […]
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Experts Refute Critics’ Assertions Leveled Against Missile Defense
Three panels of experts put down critics’ allegations that missile defense programs don’t work or have other shortcomings, allegations that are being used by some leaders in Washington to underpin […]
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Raytheon: Low Cost Is NCADE Sales Point In Tough Fiscal 2010 Defense Budget; Cuts Looming
Raytheon Co. [RTN] will use the relatively low cost of the Network Centric Airborne Defense Element (NCADE) to help sell it to the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and Congress in […]