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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 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 April 13, 2009 Rich Smith |
An Open Letter to Boeing Here's what the aerospace giant needs to do to straighten up and fly right.  |
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 February 4, 2010 Rich Smith |
Pentagon to Boeing: Get Real! And get used to it -- the F-35 is coming.  |
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 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.  |
National Defense September 2012 Eric Beidel |
Carrier Debate Rages in Face Of New Threats The super carrier has been a symbol of U.S. power around the globe for decades, but increasing costs and other factors have critics questioning the need for so many of the giant warships.  |
The Motley Fool September 25, 2007 Rich Smith |
Quick Take: Will Northrop Overrun Aground? While defense contractors work to make manned combat a thing of the past, the Navy earmarks more money to Northrup for an obsolete aircraft carrier.  |
Popular Mechanics April 7, 2009 |
7 Military Tech Winners and Losers Under Gates's Proposed Defense Budget Defense Secretary Robert Gates proposed a budget that would be the first Defense Department overhaul by the Obama administration. The plan has winners and losers as Gates tries to streamline defense procurement.  |
The Motley Fool September 22, 2010 Rich Smith |
Core Stock: Lockheed Martin 60 years, 1 trillion dollars. Can't go wrong.  |
BusinessWeek February 24, 2011 |
Clipped Wings Defense contractors are trying to fend off liberal Democrats, conservative Republicans, and Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, all looking for savings in the Pentagon's budget. Here are the programs already on the chopping block.  |
The Motley Fool September 18, 2009 Rich Smith |
B-3, KC-X, F-35 ... Bingo! Defense investors, if you want to know which contractors will prosper in the future, and which ones will perish, listen to what Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said in his annual address to the Air Force Association conference.  |
The Motley Fool January 13, 2009 Rich Smith |
India Looks West for Its Defense Yet another big arms sale to India.  |
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.  |
National Defense July 2013 Valerie Insinna |
Fight Begins Over Navy's Armed Drone Program After years of delays, the Navy plans this summer to release a request for proposals for the preliminary design phase for its unmanned carrier launched airborne surveillance and strike aircraft, called UCLASS. The final RFP is set to be issued in early spring 2014.  |
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.  |
National Defense June 2007 Sandra I. Erwin |
For the First Time, Navy Will Launch Weapons From Surveillance Drones The Navy will request funds in fiscal year 2010 to begin outfitting its new surveillance drone with kinetic weapons.  |
The Motley Fool November 2, 2004 Seth Jayson |
Boeing's Defense Scores Results are strong from the military side, but the stock looks played out.  |
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 June 15, 2011 Rich Smith |
Boeing Scores Touchdown in India There's a new world order for U.S. defense contractors.  |
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 22, 2007 Rich Smith |
Star Wars Lite Two and a half years after they brought you the world's first airborne ray gun, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman still have a few kinks to work out. But how should investors view recent governmental funding cuts?  |
National Defense May 2009 Sandra I. Erwin |
Gates Reshapes the Budget, Can He Change the Culture? Defense Secretary Robert Gates' reshuffle of the Pentagon's $1.7 trillion weapons portfolio contained no major surprises.  |
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.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2007 John McHale |
Laser Weapons Are Getting Closer to Reality U.S. Department of Defense experts are close to fielding the Airborne Laser (ABL) for missile defense and several other high-energy laser weapons programs received new funding this year.  |
National Defense December 2005 Harold Kennedy |
Pentagon Eyes Growing Short-Range Missile Threat Defense Department officials are warning that terrorists soon could strike U.S. cities with short-range missiles.  |
The Motley Fool July 9, 2008 Rich Smith |
Russia Growls; Investors Listen Russia's increasing bellicosity means that there's a continuing need for "Big Defense" in the U.S. Aircraft carriers. Nuclear subs. Tanks. And yes, missile defense. Defense contractors should cheer.  |
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 September 19, 2011 Abantika Chatterjee |
Lockheed's Japan Contract Bonanza A $4 billion contract to supply 40 fighter jets to Japan should make investors salivate.  |
The Motley Fool May 28, 2009 Rich Smith |
Boeing and Lockheed Lock Sights on India The subcontinent nears a decision.  |
The Motley Fool June 2, 2009 Rich Smith |
Lockheed Loses Contract, Gains Allies Congress and Japan could become the defense contractor's new BFFs.  |
The Motley Fool July 29, 2010 Rich Smith |
Hey! Who's Flying This Thing? Just how good can UAVs get?  |
National Defense November 2010 Sandra I. Erwin |
'Cutting-Edge' Weapons No Longer the Holy Grail Because of the war experience and the fiscal outlook, experts predict, the Defense Department will for some time remain conflicted about how it should spend its research dollars.  |
The Motley Fool August 4, 2009 Eric Bleeker |
Juice Your Defense-Investing Returns What works in defense investing today might be a relic tomorrow.  |
National Defense May 2009 Sandra I. Erwin |
Gates' Rules Don't Apply to Navy Shipbuilding Intense pressure from members of Congress who want to protect employment at the nation's top shipyards will limit the Pentagon's options as it begins a sweeping review of military strategy and equipment needs.  |
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.  |
National Defense July 2010 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr. |
Budget Debate: Resources Should Match the Strategy Defense Secretary Robert Gates in recent speeches has covered the waterfront of the financial challenges facing the defense establishment as well as the nation.  |
The Motley Fool February 3, 2010 Rich Smith |
Time to Invest in the Other China? Taiwanese arms sales promise both danger and opportunity.  |
The Motley Fool December 24, 2008 Rich Smith |
Boatloads of Profit for General Dynamics and Northrop The U.S. Navy delivers a veritable boatload of certainty to both companies -- and that is meant literally.  |
National Defense July 2004 Michael Peck |
Air Force, Navy to Join Forces On Unmanned Aircraft Project A nascent Air Force-Navy program to develop a family of unmanned combat aircraft will seek to show military planners how this technology can help commanders gather intelligence, spot the enemy and ultimately destroy designated targets.  |
Defense Update July 2008 |
Super Hornet Stings Back - at Farnborough 2008 Boeing is pitching future enhancements of its 'Super Hornet' in case JSF encounters cost overrun forcing significant cuts in the program.  |
National Defense September 2009 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr. |
Program Terminations Invariably Have Unintended Consequences One of the most controversial decisions was to end the F-22 fighter program at 187 aircraft. Some pundits, defense intellectuals and even government officials have contended that the F-22 is a Cold War weapon that is not needed for today's world.  |
The Motley Fool July 26, 2011 Andrew Tonner |
Investor Roundtable: The Best Stocks in the Defense Industry Fools muster their financial forces to battle over the best potential picks.  |
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  |
National Defense August 2015 Stew Magnuson |
Primes Line Up to Compete for JSTARS Recap Program The next version of the Air Force's joint surveillance and attack radar aircraft will have a smaller airframe, along with updated radar, communications and battle management suites.  |
The Motley Fool February 4, 2010 Rich Smith |
Pentagon to Northrop: Go Jump in a Lake Or make a bid. It's all the same to us.  |
Popular Mechanics July 8, 2009 Erik Sofge |
Experts See Divergent Futures for Boeing's Two Flying Lasers Although rumors of its death have been greatly exaggerated, the embattled, multibillion-dollar Airborne Laser is fighting for its life.  |
The Motley Fool October 27, 2009 Rich Smith |
Boeing Builds a Laser Tank The Force is strong with this one.  |
The Motley Fool December 30, 2003 Jeff Hwang |
Boeing Gains Navy Contracts Boeing will receive $9.6 billion from Super Hornet and EA-18G contracts.  |