Business/Financial

By Geoff Fein The Navy last month issued a request for proposals (RFP) to both General Dynamics [GD] and Lockheed Martin [LMT] for the fiscal year ’10 Littoral Combat Ships […]

By Ann Roosevelt The Army deems "successful" an unprecedented Blue Ribbon Panel to include input from people within and outside the military about what a future ground vehicle (GCV) should […]

SAIC [SAI] yesterday said it has been awarded a five-year contract with a total potential value of $284 million for services for U.S. Joint Forces Command (JFCOM). The company will […]

By Calvin Biesecker Continuing its run of small acquisitions in targeted growth areas, Boeing [BA] yesterday said it has agreed to acquire eXMeritus, Inc., as it seeks to boost its […]

By Emelie Rutherford and Geoff Fein The Navy’s E-2D Advanced Hawkeye being developed by Northrop Grumman [NOC] suffered a critical cost breach triggering an already completed Pentagon certification under the […]

Boeing [BA] said yesterday it received an $18.7 million Army contract to procure long- lead items and related tooling and test equipment to support the initial delivery of early Spin […]

United States Must ‘Start Now’ To Build European Missile Defense System, If It Is To Be In Place Before Iran Ready To Strike A mass of evidence has gathered steadily […]

The National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) is reported to have "an extraordinarily low" chance of success, Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) said. That is "sobering," agreed Jane Lubchenco, administrator […]

Proponents of a dependable U.S. missile defense system of systems shouldn’t worry about the $1.2 billion of cuts to missile defense programs that President Obama and Secretary of Defense Robert […]

President Obama should provide strong support to the planned European Missile Defense (EMD) system if he wishes to avert a growing danger of a nuclear arms race sweeping across the […]