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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.  |
The Motley Fool March 31, 2011 Rich Smith |
Northrop Tosses Huntington Ingalls Overboard By getting itself out of Huntington, its nuclear aircraft carrier- and submarine-building business, did Northrop set investors adrift in a leaky boat?  |
IndustryWeek January 20, 2010 Peter Alpern |
Visualize This Northrop Grumman completes a 3-D product model for a next-generation aircraft carrier.  |
National Defense June 2005 Robert H. Williams |
Navy's New Carrier: An Electrifying Ride Construction of the Navy's next-generation aircraft carrier, the CVN-21, could begin as early as this year, even though the ship's design continues to evolve.  |
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 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 May 13, 2011 Rich Smith |
Huntington Ingalls: Swimming With Sharks Northrop set its stepchild adrift and laden with debt.  |
The Motley Fool January 13, 2009 Rich Smith |
India Looks West for Its Defense Yet another big arms sale to India.  |
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.  |
National Defense February 2009 Grace V. Jean |
Navy's Shipbuilding Strategy Remains Under Fire A fleet of 278 ships today -- less than half of what it was two decades ago -- is likely to continue to shrink unless the Navy can contain the soaring costs of building new ships.  |
The Motley Fool August 28, 2008 Rich Smith |
General Dynamics and Lockheed Deliver These two defense contractors deserve praise for their recent accomplishments.  |
National Defense April 2005 Sandra I. Erwin |
Aviation Force Gets Smaller, But New Aircraft Spending on Course The intent is to replace aging Navy and Marine Corps aircraft with fewer, but more technologically advanced systems.  |
The Motley Fool December 6, 2010 Jim Royal |
This Spinoff May Not Spin The government has a few questions for Northrop Grumman.  |
National Defense August 2006 Sandra I. Erwin |
Combat Drone Project Exposes Pitfalls of Joint-Service Programs When the Pentagon quashed a multibillion-dollar Air Force-Navy combat drone program earlier this year, experts contended this was proof that joint service projects are doomed from the get-go.  |
National Defense June 2013 Valerie Insinna |
Vendors Faceoff Over Navy Cargo Aircraft The Navy isn't likely to kick off a competition until 2014, but two rival manufacturers are eager to prove that their aircraft is the best option for flying supplies to carrier strike groups.  |
The Motley Fool February 4, 2010 Rich Smith |
Pentagon to Boeing: Get Real! And get used to it -- the F-35 is coming.  |
National Defense September 2012 Dan Parsons |
Budget Crunch Could Jeopardize New Carrier Procurement With uncertain economic waters ahead, there may be a growing reticence within the Defense Department to commit to buying future aircraft carriers, its single largest procurement item.  |
Popular Mechanics December 17, 2008 Andrew Moseman |
The Navy's Fighter-Plane-Size UAV, the X-47B, Is Unveiled in California Yesterday, Northrop Grumman unveiled its first completed X-47B Navy Unmanned Combat Air System. This giant UAV could soon be one of the most lethal unmanned aircraft in the U.S. military.  |
The Motley Fool April 4, 2008 Rich Smith |
Washington Post Indicts Military-Industrial Complex The Washington Post prints a seething report about over-expenditures in the military defense contracting business.  |
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.  |
National Defense November 2004 Sandra I. Erwin |
Carrier Flight Decks Will Have `Pit Stops' for Navy Fighter Jets A new aircraft carrier that is scheduled to enter service during the next decade will offer a radically different approach to servicing and prepping fighter jets.  |
The Motley Fool June 18, 2004 Brian Gorman |
Lockheed's Weight Problem Lockheed Martin will delay takeoff on its Joint Strike Fighter program due to a nagging problem that may leave the defense contractor's investors jittery.  |
National Defense September 2015 Jon Harper |
Funding Restricted for Ford-Class Carriers Lawmakers are pushing new funding restrictions in an effort to control the costs of Ford-class aircraft carriers.  |
The Motley Fool September 20, 2011 Rich Smith |
DDG Me, ASAP It's full-speed ahead for General Dynamics' new ship contracts.  |
National Defense May 2005 Sandra Erwin |
Shipbuilding Strategy Makes Sure Bet on Uncertain Future War-strained Pentagon budgets, rising shipbuilding costs and inconsistent messages by the Navy's leadership are conspiring to bring about what could be a dramatic downsizing in the Navy.  |
The Motley Fool August 31, 2009 Rich Smith |
6 Stocks That Never Surrender In a fight to the finish versus the S&P 500, check in on how six defense stocks are doing.  |
National Defense December 2015 Allyson Versprille |
Augmented Reality Could Help Solve Ford-Class Carrier Cost Woes Executives at Newport News Shipbuilding in Virginia, the Huntington Ingalls division that is constructing the Navy's next-generation Ford-class supercarriers, said new technology employing digital design and construction could help reduce labor hours and lower acquisition costs for the program  |
National Defense January 2008 Grace V. Jean |
Ship Construction Costs Endanger Navy's Fleet Expansion With runaway shipbuilding costs, disruptions in key programs and competing budgetary needs, the Navy is heading into one of its toughest procurement cycles yet.  |
National Defense January 2007 Sandra I. Erwin |
Shipbuilding Plan Sailing Into Turbulent Seas Cutbacks in personnel, training and maintenance costs will fuel a moderate growth in Navy procurement programs starting in 2008, albeit at a slower pace than Navy leaders had forecast a year ago, analysts estimate.  |
National Defense January 2006 Robert H. Williams |
Weapons Elevator Designed for Future Northrop Grumman Corporation selected Federal Equipment Company to design and build an advanced weapons elevator for the new-generation aircraft carrier, CVN 21.  |
National Defense September 2009 Sandra I. Erwin |
Unpiloted Aircraft Not Coming Soon to Navy Carrier Decks Aboard Navy aircraft carriers, the future of unmanned aviation still is up in the air.  |
National Defense August 2007 Grace Jean |
Littoral Combat Ship Could Slip Behind Schedule as Price Tag Nears $500 Million In the midst of a contentious debate about the Navy's embattled littoral combat ship program, the service's coveted warship has come under fire by its own supporters on Capitol Hill.  |
National Defense April 2009 Sandra I. Erwin |
Threats To Aircraft Carriers Bolster Case for Unmanned Combat Jets The dominance of U.S. aircraft carriers, however, could be one day challenged if future enemies arm themselves with accurate, long-range missiles.  |
National Defense June 2006 Jean & Erwin |
For Navy, More Unmanned Aircraft on the Horizon An unmanned combat aircraft that can operate from carrier decks would be of great utility to the Navy, but it appears to be unaffordable, at least for the time being, said a naval aviation expert.  |
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.  |
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.  |
National Defense July 2009 Stew Magnuson |
Navy Awaits Arrival of Powerful New Radar-Equipped Aircraft The Navy's new E-2D Advanced Hawkeye surveillance and reconnaissance aircraft has a powerful new radar.  |
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.  |
National Defense April 2014 Valerie Insinna |
Operations With Navy's New Afloat Network Get Underway The Navy intends to streamline the number of networks and modernizing hardware and software through the Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services program, or CANES.  |
National Defense November 2004 |
Washington Pulse Civilians Also Need `Joint' Training... Navy Will Push to Keep 12 Aircraft Carriers... What's on the Air Force Chief's Mind... Army Ponders Spending Priorities... etc.  |
The Motley Fool November 8, 2010 Rich Smith |
Everybody's a Winner! Just about everybody's getting a Pentagon contract these days.  |
The Motley Fool November 4, 2009 Rich Smith |
Addled Admiral Builds a Robot Navy U.S. Navy Admiral Gary Roughead wants to cut loose on the Pentagon's strait-laced acquisition rules and begin buying cutting-edge tech for the Navy.  |
National Defense July 2004 Roxana Tiron |
Lack of Specificity in Navy Shipbuilding Plans Irks the Industry Frustrated by perpetual fluctuations in U.S. Navy shipbuilding budgets, industry leaders are asking for funding stability.  |
National Defense July 2012 Antoine Martin |
Promising Outlook for Navy's Unmanned Aviation The U.S. Navy has ambitious plans to deploy new families of unmanned aircraft over the next decade.  |
National Defense April 2005 Harold Kennedy |
Navy Seeks to Simplify Ship Maintenance To keep ships ready to deploy, the U.S. Navy is working to reduce the time that its ships spend in maintenance.  |
The Motley Fool August 8, 2007 Rich Smith |
Northrop Gains Air Superiority Northrop Grumman signs an important contract with the U.S. Navy to develop Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. Keep an eye on Northrop, investors; they may be pulling ahead of competition as the nation's foremost military aircraft maker.  |
National Defense July 2013 Sandra I. Erwin |
Navy to Consider New Ways to Shuttle Passengers, Supplies to Aircraft Carriers The Navy will decide over the next two years how it will modernize its fleet of 35 cargo planes that move passengers and supplies from bases on land to big-deck aircraft carriers at sea.  |
National Defense October 2013 Valerie Insinna |
Navy's New Drones Taking Center Stage The Navy finally is developing its own custom unmanned air systems, with the service planning on fielding four new aircraft in the next few years.  |
National Defense May 2014 Valerie Insinna |
Confusion Surrounds Navy's Carrier-Based Drone The Navy in 2010 first released a request for information for the unmanned carrier-launched airborne surveillance and strike aircraft, or UCLASS, but officials took years debating whether it wanted a revolutionary technology or something less risky.  |
National Defense November 2004 Sandra I. Erwin |
Navy Wraps Up Review of Air-to-Ground Targeting Systems Deployed on Fighter Jets A review of three air-to-ground targeting systems designed for Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps fighter jets is expected to leave current programs intact, sources said.  |