As Military Contracts Grow, So Do Protests
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After losing a competition last year to build helicopters for the Air Force, Lockheed Martin and Sikorsky Aircraft chose to do what hundreds of companies do when lucrative contracts don't go their way.
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A recent series of acquisitions of Canadian corporations has prompted a growing public debate over foreign control.
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Raytheon Co.  on Saturday filed a protest with the U.S. government over its award of a U.S. cargo contract to rival contractors, the Wall Street Journal reported in its online edition.
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The Army is considering a settlement with five companies that successfully protested awards made in April under the Information Technology Enterprise Solutions-2 Services (ITES-2S) contract.
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Even while the public's ambivalence about the war has steadily grown, the will to help troops has steadily risen.
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Banners and flags are seen during a demonstration in Vicenza. Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets of Vicenza, Italy, to protest the planned expansion of a US military base here, a divisive ...Comment
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Its burgeoning military-industrial complex is increasingly capable of turning out cutting-edge weaponry - and selling it.
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The growing confrontation promises to be an epic business battle.
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By Timothy R. Gaffney, Dayton Daily News, Ohio  Sep. 9--An Air Force contract worth $627.8 million should generate local  high-tech jobs and shows what was at stake in last year's military  base-closing process, a Dayton Development Coalition executive said Friday.
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Private security contractors do indispensable work in Iraq, but the muscle-bound showiness associated with these hired guns, and lack of control over them, is drawing criticism.
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U.S. military leaders in Baghdad have put out for bid a two-year, $20 million public relations contract that calls for extensive monitoring of U.S. and Middle Eastern media in an effort to promote more positive coverage of news from Iraq.
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The Army awarded a contract worth up to $150 billion to feed, house and provide other services to U.S. troops in Iraq, Afghanistan and Kuwait, spreading among three companies work that recently had been linked to a single, controversial contractor: Halliburton.
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BAGHDAD -- Private security companies, funded by billions of dollars in U.S. military and State Department contracts, are fighting insurgents on a widening scale in Iraq, enduring daily attacks, returning fire and taking hundreds of casualties that have been underreported and sometimes concealed,...
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Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld's intended transformation of the Army into a quick, mobile force has started to rub against the daily demands of patching enough tanks and trucks together to keep fighting the war.
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Tens of thousands of people join protests against the Iraq war in a dozen cities across the United States.
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While some don't see much defiance, others see an unusual amount of tension surfacing for an all-volunteer military force.
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WASHINGTON -- US military leaders in Baghdad have put out for bid a two-year $20 million public relations contract that calls for extensive monitoring of US and Middle Eastern media in an effort to promote more positive coverage of news from Iraq.