Defense & Aerospace

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Reason January 2005 George Passantino	Private Flight SpaceShipOne, the privately funded space vehicle, has returned to earth with the $10 million Ansari X-Prize. That one small trip for a ship was a giant leap away from the government's monopoly on space travel.
CFO January 1, 2005 Randy Myers	Looking to Land For Boeing, finance executives are taking the pilot's seat in site selection. As CFOs become more deeply involved in real estate decisions, they are also forging a broader approach to the process.
The Motley Fool December 29, 2004 Brian Gorman	Raptor Under Attack The Pentagon is considering scaling back Lockheed Martin's F/A-22 Raptor fighter jet program.
The Motley Fool December 23, 2004 W.D. Crotty	Merry Christmas, Ultralife! Ultralife Batteries garners a giant Defense Department contract. The news jump-started the shares to an almost-30% gain.
Inc. January 2005 David H. Freedman	Entrepreneur of the Year In the entrepreneurial achievement of 2004, Burt Rutan became the first private businessman to launch human beings into space. His ultimate goal: to make space flight routine -- and turn a big profit.
National Defense January 2005 Roxana Tiron	Army Badly Equipped To Fight in Low-Intensity Wars The Army's most ambitious procurement program, the Future Combat Systems, may be directed at the wrong threat and the service needs to adjust its investments accordingly.
National Defense January 2005 Sandra I. Erwin	Army Ponders Formation Of Expert Logistics Units As the U.S. Army reorganizes from a division- to a brigade-based combat force, it also intends to change the way it delivers supplies and logistics support to the front lines.
National Defense January 2005 Sandra I. Erwin	Contractors Struggling To Comply With Pentagon Smart-Tag Mandate As the deadline nears for contractors to install smart tags on shipments of critical military supplies, an industry survey reveals that many companies have yet to come to grips with the new regulations.
National Defense January 2005 Joe Pappalardo	Improving Maintenance Of Military Gear Requires Access to Information With a growing backlog of equipment repair and maintenance work, the U.S. military services and contractors are finding that, in order to expedite the job, they need computer systems that can share information across the supply chain.
National Defense January 2005 Roxana Tiron	Navy Salvage and Diving Teams Essential to `Sea Base' Concept It is going to take years and considerable investments to make sea basing fully operational.
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