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The Motley Fool April 9, 2009 Rich Smith |
Lockheed Defenseless? Boeing Busted? Maybe, but there are also winners aplenty in the Pentagon's new budget.  |
The Motley Fool April 20, 2009 Rich Smith |
Pentagon Unveils Crystal Ball Defense Secretary Gates says that the military needs to start preparing for "the wars we are most likely to fight -- not just the wars we're best suited to fight." Which companies stand to benefit from this?  |
The Motley Fool October 5, 2010 Rich Smith |
Boeing's Da Bomb Last week, we discussed Boeing's just-in-time landing of a $5.3 billion order for F-18 fighter jets -- big news at the time, but a contract that pales next to the monster deal Boeing just inked to upgrade the Air Force's fleet of B-52 bombers.  |
The Motley Fool February 3, 2009 Rich Smith |
Boeing: Can't Join 'Em? Beat 'Em! Boeing may be top o' the heap in commercial airliners and military transports, and it may even do a decent job on helicopters. But when it comes to the next big thing in aeronautics -- unmanned aerial vehicles the company's looking like a bit of an also-ran.  |
The Motley Fool June 17, 2009 Rich Smith |
Northrop Grumman: More than Just UAVs Northrop Grumman just landed a $432 million contract to build two new E-2D "Advanced Hawkeye" command and control aircraft for the Navy. And this is just the beginning.  |
The Motley Fool March 6, 2009 Rich Smith |
Boeing's Kansas Workers Deserve Western Respect Boeing's Kansan engineers for the second time rejected Boeing's latest contract offer. But unlike their comrades out West, they elected not to punish the company by going on strike.  |
The Motley Fool September 11, 2008 Rich Smith |
Let's Play Boeing Ball! For weeks, airplane magnate Boeing has complained about the Pentagon's planned rebid of a contract to build scores of new KC-X aerial refueling tankers for the Air Force.  |
The Motley Fool November 19, 2009 Rich Smith |
Is That a Knife in Your Back, Boeing? The first time the Obama administration did a hatchet job on Boeing, it was just business. This time, it feels ... personal.  |
The Motley Fool February 4, 2010 Rich Smith |
Pentagon to Boeing: Get Real! And get used to it -- the F-35 is coming.  |
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 June 15, 2009 Rich Smith |
Boeing Bets on Black (Ops) Boeing came late to the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) party, but you've got to give these guys credit -- now that they're here, they aim to make a splash.  |
The Motley Fool May 4, 2010 Rich Smith |
Defense Contractors Get a Dunking Secure your helmets and fasten your chin straps, defense investors. Defense Secretary Robert Gates is wielding the ax again.  |
The Motley Fool September 17, 2009 Rich Smith |
Boeing's Brilliant and Timeless Bluff The C-17's demise has been predicted before. Here we go again.  |
The Motley Fool June 7, 2011 Dan Radovsky |
Drones: More Than a Buzzword for Boeing Boeing's gamble in unmanned aircraft may pay off ... one day.  |
The Motley Fool April 22, 2008 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Boeing on the Radar In advance of quarterly reports, analysts expect Boeing to show a big jump in earnings.  |
The Motley Fool February 19, 2010 Rich Smith |
Boeing Curries Favor in India And they need to, because Lockheed's F-35 is on its way.  |
The Motley Fool October 21, 2008 Rich Smith |
Foolish Forecast: Not All News Is Bad News at Boeing In advance of earnings, analysts expect Boeing's profits to nosedive.  |
The Motley Fool March 13, 2008 Rich Smith |
Quit Crying, Boeing Boeing has filed its long-anticipated protest on the KC-X Tanker contract with the U.S. Air Force.  |
The Motley Fool June 15, 2011 Rich Smith |
Boeing Scores Touchdown in India There's a new world order for U.S. defense contractors.  |
The Motley Fool June 30, 2010 Rich Smith |
Pentagon to Defense Contractors: We've Got Your Back As Defense Secretary Robert Gates reiterated plans to cut in excess of $100 billion from Pentagon spending over the next five years, they also try to reassure that they're not out to hurt anyone -- least of all investors.  |
The Motley Fool February 2, 2010 Rich Smith |
Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and Defense Spending Cuts What do these three things have in common? Just like the mythical creatures, the threat to defense spending is a total myth.  |
The Motley Fool June 15, 2004 Brian Gorman |
Boeing's Ship Comes In Boeing's new contract to build aircraft for the Navy continues its string of positive news. The company's prospects remain good, but investors may want to wait for the shares to descend a bit before piling on board.  |
The Motley Fool May 29, 2009 Rich Smith |
Say It Ain't So, Boeing The aerospace giant has landed more than $312 million in contracts to lease its ScanEagle unmanned aerial vehicle to the Navy and Marine Corps over the past two years.  |
The Motley Fool August 2, 2010 Rich Smith |
Boeing Wins! No, still not the KC-X contract. But almost as good. It seems the company that's taken the single greatest lead in unmanned airpower dominance -- at least for now -- is Boeing  |
The Motley Fool October 29, 2009 Rich Smith |
Recession: 98, Textron: 2 The maker of Bell helicopters, Cessna airplanes, and Shadow unmanned aerial vehicles reported horrible Q3 earnings, but the loss isn't as lopsided as it sounds.  |
The Motley Fool May 6, 2009 Rich Smith |
Boeing Steals Lockheed's Thunder (Er, Lightning) Boeing is the contractor bleeding the most from the defense cuts that Defense Secretary Gates proposed last month. Yet (at the risk of mixing some metaphors) Boeing's showing that this old dog still has a few tricks up its sleeve.  |
The Motley Fool June 23, 2010 Rich Smith |
Pentagon Suffers Death by a Trillion Cuts A group advocates $1 trillion in spending reductions.  |
The Motley Fool July 29, 2010 Rich Smith |
Hey! Who's Flying This Thing? Just how good can UAVs get?  |
The Motley Fool August 3, 2009 Rich Smith |
6 Stocks That Never Surrender While I'm certainly not rooting against a broad-based economic recovery, I'm convinced that my six star defense companies will perform just fine in any economy.  |
The Motley Fool July 29, 2011 Katie Spence |
When Will This Company Learn You Can't Get Ahead by Being Stupid? Boeing was undoubtedly aggressive with its tanker bid, and it looks like that's coming back to haunt it.  |
The Motley Fool June 8, 2009 Rich Smith |
A Boeing Foe's Tale of Woe Boeing's not the only airplane maker losing orders.  |
National Defense May 2015 Valerie Insinna |
Boeing Banks on Cost Effectiveness of C-40 to Deliver Foreign Sales Boeing has begun pitching its C-40 transport aircraft currently in use by the Navy and Air Force to international customers.  |
The Motley Fool August 27, 2009 Rich Smith |
Hey! Who's Flying this Thing? Special Report Newsflash: Mainstream media discovers unmanned aerial vehicles or drone aircraft.  |
The Motley Fool July 10, 2008 Rich Smith |
Boeing's Boffo Day Good news comes in pairs.  |
The Motley Fool June 8, 2009 Rich Smith |
"Hey! Who's Flying This Thing?" Part Seven. (Yes, really. We're already up to seven.)  |
The Motley Fool August 20, 2010 Rich Smith |
Boeing's KC-X Tanker: Not That Big a Deal And saying so won't make it so.  |
The Motley Fool May 28, 2009 Rich Smith |
Boeing and Lockheed Lock Sights on India The subcontinent nears a decision.  |
The Motley Fool July 18, 2011 Rich Smith |
Get Rich With Defense Stocks? Yes, Really! If Congress takes an axe to the Pentagon's budget, defense contractors might actually have cause for celebration.  |
BusinessWeek October 29, 2009 |
Reforming the Weapons Budget White House efforts to curtail military spending have had mixed results. Here are some examples.  |
The Motley Fool March 11, 2009 Rich Smith |
Boeing: Wheels Up in 1 Year Boeing finally provided its investors with some good news. The 787 Dreamliner project is finally on track.  |
The Motley Fool January 29, 2004 Bill Mann |
Tax Refund Gooses Boeing A $1 billion tax refund gooses Boeing's annual results.  |
The Motley Fool November 12, 2010 Rich Smith |
Marines Under Fire From Pentagon Cuts In the battle to balance the budget, Marines find themselves in the crossfire. The President's panel proposed a wholesale reduction in Pentagon hardware spending.  |
The Motley Fool September 29, 2010 Rich Smith |
Boeing Bets on Black The nation's second largest defense contractor announced a deal that could preserve its place as a profitable producer of fighter aircraft -- or put it deeply in the red.  |
The Motley Fool December 4, 2009 Rich Smith |
Boeing Defiantly Growls Reports of the airplane makers' demise are ... exaggerated.  |
The Motley Fool April 14, 2009 Rich Smith |
USAF Rolls Over. Will Lockheed Play Dead? Defense Secretary Gates wielded the budget axe against Lockheed's Raptor fighter jets, but the F-22's final dogfight will play out in Congress.  |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
Stormy Skies, and a Silver Lining, for Boeing A look at Boeing's history, strategy, and progress.  |
National Defense January 2011 Scott Hamilton |
Outsourcing U.S. Defense: National Security Implications Politicians and labor unions demand that the Defense Department buy American when, in fact, the reliance on foreign suppliers has increased sharply in the last decade and is likely to do so even more in the future.  |
The Motley Fool September 22, 2010 Rich Smith |
Core Stock: Lockheed Martin 60 years, 1 trillion dollars. Can't go wrong.  |
The Motley Fool May 27, 2010 Rich Smith |
Boeing Plays the "Un-American" Card The argument sounds self-serving, but it's got merit.  |
The Motley Fool March 17, 2010 Rich Smith |
Invasion of the Boeing-Snatchers EADS hopes to snatch victory from mouth of defeat.  |