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DefenseImagery.milSo you’ve got your eye on this sweet new ride — an Oliver Perry-class guided missile frigate — but you’re a little short on cash. What do you do? DefenseImagery.mil...
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In the world of defense spending, and defense investing, everything old is becoming new again — aircraft carriers especially. Over the past several months, defense news headlines have been...
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ThinkstockThe Department of Defense awarded 14 defense contracts in its Friday evening announcement of contract awards. Several publicly traded companies were among the winners of contracts that...
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ThinkstockThe Department of Defense awarded 14 defense contracts in its Friday evening announcement of contract awards. The total value of contracts awarded was $642.8 million. Bell Helicopter...
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The drone has come of age, and with it the possibility that manufacturers can make money from non-military applications. The FAA has begun to certify drones for civilian functions as mundane as...
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The KC-46A aerial tanker contract that Boeing won in 2011 just suffered another budget increase. The program's development costs have risen by nearly $1.1 billion, according to an exclusive report by...
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Elon Musk, the creator of the Tesla electric car and founder of rocket company SpaceX, wants to do more than ferry people above the Earth's atmosphere. He has proposed to the federal government that...
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courtesy Boeing Co.Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel was to release a budget proposal Monday that would reduce the size of the U.S. Army to levels not seen since before World War II. So, what did defense...
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courtesy Boeing Co.Lockheed Martin Corp. (NYSE: LMT) is the first of the defense contractors to acknowledge how badly it has been gored by the federal government’s slowdown in military spending....
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When nations go to war, the so-called military industrial complex is generally considered to be the real winner when it comes to the economic side of the equation. Warfare is a very costly business,...
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Courtesy BlackBerryThe rise and fall of Research In Motion, now BlackBerry Ltd. (NASDAQ: BBRY), has been a monumental one. Imagine having the best products craved by everyone to the point that your...
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