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Northrop Grumman won the biggest Defense Department contract of the day. Valued at up to $9.9 billion, Northrop's project is to modernize and support the Air Force's B-2 Stealth Bombers.
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The Department of Defense awarded $10.46 billion in defense contracts Tuesday. The winning defense contractors included included Olin Corp., Boeing, and General Dynamics. The non-defense related...
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The first 747-100 from Boeing was put into service in 1970, and those first planes sold at a list price of $24 million. Adjusting for inflation, that same 747 would sell today for $146.6 million.
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Lockheed Martin won a $915 million contract from the Pentagon for work on the U.S. Air Force's Space Fence program. The defense company's mission will be to track 'space junk' orbiting the Earth,...
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Whenever you see a stock up more than 100%, the first assumption is that a buyout has occurred. Not so in the case of Giga-tronics.
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Delta Air Lines announced Monday morning that it has agreed to purchase 15 more A321 aircraft from Airbus for delivery beginning in 2018. That brings Delta's total order for the A321 to 45.
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Many of the contracts awarded by the Department of Defense on Friday went to companies less commonly associated with the military. Among these non-traditional winners were Great Lakes Dredge &...
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Northrop Grumman wins $44 million in contracts from the Department of Defense, including projects for the U.S. Army and U.S. Navy in Afghanistan, Bahrain, and Kuwait.
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Boeing expects that as it moves to an era when the Dreamliner 787 is one of its best-selling models, its transition from older models will not hamper sales.
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Canada-based aircraft maker Bombardier Inc. suffered a significant setback on Thursday to its plans to build a commercial plane to compete with the 737 from Boeing and the A320 from Airbus Group.
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Elon Musk's space exploration company SpaceX is a wonder. Its rocket ships are a science fiction fan's dream and now Musk, who is also the founder of Tesla and SolarCity, has them pointed at Mars.
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ThinkstockThe Department of Defense awarded 17 defense contracts with a total value of $554.6 million in its Thursday evening announcement of contract awards. Textron (NYSE: TXT) took home contracts...
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ThinkstockThe defense and security contracts just keep piling up at Elbit Systems (NASDAQ: ESLT). Yesterday, the Israeli defense contractor announced its second big contract win in as many months, a...
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ThinkstockThe Pentagon awarded seven defense contracts in its Wednesday evening announcement of contract awards, totaling $540.4 million. By far, the largest of these contracts, allocating nearly 83%...
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ThinkstockEmerging from the Memorial Day weekend, the staff at the Department of Defense got back to work yesterday, awarding nine defense contracts in its Tuesday evening announcement of contract...
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