Defense & Aerospace

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National Defense May 2006 Peter M. Steffes	Congress Should Consider Further Acquisition Reform National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) believes that additional legislation is needed to achieve the full degree of cost savings and comprehensive acquisition reform envisioned
BusinessWeek April 24, 2006 Carol Matlack	Airbus May Hit An Air Pocket Over China Why Airbus' plan to build narrowbody planes in China could come up short.
The Motley Fool April 11, 2006 Tim Beyers	Countdown to Moon Madness NASA targets 2008 for the next lunar landing. This could be a be a boon to big contractors such as Lockheed Martin, but smaller manufacturers such as Ball Aerospace may stand to gain an outsized share as well. Investors, take note.
BusinessWeek April 17, 2006 Stanley Holmes	Walt Gillette: Just Plane Genius Walt Gillette has spent a life-time designing safer, more efficient jets - and making Boeing money.
Popular Mechanics April 2006 Noah Shachtman	The Great Weapons Debate The Pentagon wants to deploy a host of exotic new weapons systems. Critics say too much of this costly hardware is designed to fight the wrong war.
BusinessWeek April 10, 2006 Dawn Kopecki	Cashing In On The Katrina Cleanup Why the Army is about to hand an Indian tribe an enormous no-bid contract.
The Motley Fool March 28, 2006 Brian Gorman	Boeing Overstretches? Boeing's decision to go ahead with a stretch 787 shouldn't be interpreted as a major positive.
The Motley Fool March 28, 2006 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Love and War at iRobot The consumer robotics specialist gets drafted for more military duty. Investors, take note.
National Defense April 2006 Sandra I. Erwin	Spending Muscle Fueled By Emergency Funding A combination of bigger procurement accounts in this year's budget and war-emergency appropriations puts the Army on course to receive some of the largest levels of funding it has seen in decades.
National Defense April 2006 Grace Jean	Plans to Expand Fleet May Be Unrealistic Amid assurances by the Navy leadership that the latest shipbuilding blueprint is on a safe course, several analysts are sounding alarms. Unless the Navy begins to aggressively cut costs from its shipbuilding programs and pump much more money into these accounts, the plan could fail.
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