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The Motley Fool May 10, 2011 Rich Smith |
General Electric Won't Take "No" for an Answer How about "no, thanks?"  |
The Motley Fool May 16, 2011 Rich Smith |
General Electric: Beggars Can't Be Losers The House Armed Services Committee voted 54 to 5 to let GE keep building the alternate F-35 engine on its own dime, for the next two years.  |
The Motley Fool February 17, 2011 Rich Smith |
Shame on Indiana A nation $14 trillion in debt doesn't need two billion-dollar fighter jet engines.  |
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 June 9, 2011 Rich Smith |
$1 Trillion for the F-35? Maybe Not. United Tech, the current sole-source provider of the engine that will fly Lockheed's new bird, announced a plan to cut costs on the fighter's engines.  |
The Motley Fool March 4, 2010 Rich Smith |
Lockheed Martin Short-Circuits F-35 orders are getting pushed back an unlucky 13 months to allow for extra testing of the plane.  |
The Motley Fool June 2, 2010 Rich Smith |
Lockheed Martin's 20%-Off Sale Want a cheaper airplane? Lockheed's got you covered.  |
BusinessWeek June 3, 2010 Ratnam et al. |
GE, Pratt & Whitney, and a Big-Bucks Media War GE is using a political-style campaign to persuade Congress to keep funding the F-35 backup engine program  |
The Motley Fool June 1, 2011 Rich Smith |
Boeing: Spinner or Winner? Boeing argues that F-35 troubles boost interest for its own Super Hornet.  |
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 January 3, 2012 Rich Smith |
Boeing Bags a Big 1, and Lockheed Does, Too Both contractors finished off 2011 with a bang.  |
The Motley Fool June 17, 2009 Rich Smith |
Stop Talking, Boeing Ever since losing twin competitions to build the Pentagon's fifth-generation fighters, the F-35 Lightning II and F-22 Raptor, to Lockheed Martin, Boeing's been nursing hurt feelings by dissing the competition.  |
The Motley Fool May 27, 2011 Rich Smith |
Everybody Hates Lockheed Here's a trillion reasons why.  |
The Motley Fool March 25, 2010 Rich Smith |
Crazy Sammy's Discount Fighter Jets Romania buys F-16s on the cheap (and other defense stories).  |
The Motley Fool September 22, 2010 Rich Smith |
Core Stock: Lockheed Martin 60 years, 1 trillion dollars. Can't go wrong.  |
The Motley Fool March 16, 2006 Brian Gorman |
Joint Strike Fighting Major international buyers threaten to bail out of Lockheed Martin's Joint Strike Fighter project. So far, Lockheed Martin hasn't taken a conciliatory attitude.  |
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 1, 2011 Katie Spence |
This Stock Is Poised for Growth General Electric is moving on up.  |
The Motley Fool June 19, 2009 Rich Smith |
Lockheed's Trillion-Dollar Warplane, Redux Lockheed Martin just might be the best investment in the entire defense industry.  |
The Motley Fool January 28, 2011 Rich Smith |
10 Core Stocks for Your Portfolio: Update on Lockheed Martin This company has a hand in everything President Eisenhower ever warned you about the military-industrial complex -- and makes a nice profit doing it.  |
The Motley Fool February 23, 2004 Bill Mann |
Comanche Cancellation Hits Hard The Pentagon may halt a $38 billion Boeing-United Technologies contract.  |
The Motley Fool May 20, 2008 Rich Smith |
Lockheed's F-16: Wings Not Clipped Yet Rumors of the fighter jet's demise have been greatly exaggerated.  |
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 July 2, 2010 Dave Mock |
3 Reasons to Sell Lockheed Martin Today Not everyone is on the buy side.  |
The Motley Fool October 9, 2010 Rich Smith |
Israel Leads the Way The nation lights a path to profits for Lockheed Martin.  |
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 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.  |
The Motley Fool July 7, 2011 Rich Smith |
Lockheed's F-35 Is Huge in Japan Japan must choose between Boeing's F/A-18 Super Hornet and Lockheed's other fifth-generation warplane, the F-35 Lightning II, to replace its aging fleet of F-4 Phantoms.  |
The Motley Fool June 29, 2011 Rich Smith |
Honeywell Powers Up in India It looks set to nab a sweet contract from the local air force.  |
The Motley Fool May 20, 2011 Rich Smith |
Could Boeing Win this Dogfight? The more we learn about the F-35's performance, the less I think we can count Boeing out.  |
The Motley Fool June 21, 2011 Rich Smith |
Lockheed Back in the Saddle Again? Just weeks after losing the India contact, the defense firm could still be a contender for it.  |
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 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 December 22, 2010 Rich Smith |
Lockheed to Pentagon: Take the Carrot ... or Else If Congress maintains its buy-rate on the F-35, Lockheed looks like a terrific bargain at less than 10 times earnings.  |
The Motley Fool October 17, 2011 Rich Smith |
A Week of Firsts for Boeing and Friends Boeing announced Thursday that it's just finished assembling a 787 Dreamliner, destined to join United Continental's fleet next year.  |
The Motley Fool October 1, 2008 Rich Smith |
Raptors and Lightnings and F-16s. Oh, My! How will the Pentagon deal with a cash-strapped economy? How should you?  |
BusinessWeek May 6, 2010 Michael Forsythe |
How GE Helps China Build Business Leaders GE is big on training execs, including those from Beijing.  |
The Motley Fool July 26, 2011 Rich Smith |
General Electric Doesn't Connect Not with investors, anyhow.  |
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 January 25, 2010 Rich Smith |
6 Stocks That Never Surrender In a fight to the finish versus the S&P 500, no quarter will be asked, none given.  |
The Motley Fool July 8, 2010 Rich Smith |
Pentagon Players Sling Mud GE takes one in the face.  |
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 May 28, 2010 Rich Smith |
What's Your Beef, Boeing? In the KC-X airplane wars, everything's connected. At first, last night's House vote left me flummoxed.  |
The Motley Fool November 25, 2008 Rich Smith |
Lockheed's Lightning Storms Norway Mega-defense contractor Lockheed Martin learns that it has won the coveted contract to replace Norway's aging fleet of F-16 fighter jets, beating out Sweden's Gripen International for the honor.  |
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.  |
National Defense November 2005 Robert H. Williams |
Strike Fighter Engine Team Gains Assist The GE Rolls-Royce fighter engine team has selected BAE Systems to produce digital electronic controls for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.  |
The Motley Fool July 27, 2011 Katie Spence |
Irrational Fear Has Made This Stock Cheap, but Not for Long Congress may be increasing anxiety over the economy, but GE company is poised to make it through regardless.  |
The Motley Fool July 9, 2008 Rich Smith |
Lockheed's Trillion-Dollar Warplane Make that a trillion -- 1,000,000,000 -- dollars that Lockheed Martin may reap from sales of its F-35 Lightning II warplane over the next 57 years.  |
The Motley Fool August 27, 2010 Rich Smith |
America, Defenseless? Some of the nation's biggest defense contractors have begun receiving "Dear John" letters from the Pentagon.  |
The Motley Fool September 21, 2011 Rich Smith |
Danger! Budget Cuts Ahead! Congress takes an ax to defense projects. Who stands to lose their heads?  |