Muscular Defense Plan Buoys Contractors
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A run of healthy profits for defense contractors that has lasted nearly a decade will continue for at least another year, analysts and company executives said after the Bush administration last week submitted its new defense budget.
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BAE Systems and Northrop Grumman were last night awarded contracts by the United States government to develop technology for protecting commercial aircraft from shoulder-fired missiles.
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The federal government has long imposed unique ethical responsibilities on its contractors. Following the defense procurement scandals of the 1980s such as Operation Ill Wind, Congress considerably increased
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Strong performances across the Boeing Co.&quot;s defense systems businesses including the C-17 and X-45 programs based in Long Beach and future combat systems in Huntington Beach helped boost third
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Houston: After HR, Finance and Accounting and supply chain Management, large corporations and government agencies are turning to outside contractors for security.
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BAGHDAD -- Private security companies, funded by billions of dollars in US 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, according to US and Iraqi officials and company representatives.
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The standardized policies are to go into effect in the first quarter of 2005 and will apply to the Navy's 900,000 military, contractor and civilian users.
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Contractors get a boost from a major west African project.
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Your (semi-) daily defense-industry news roundup.
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The Navy has added 391 contractors -- nearly half of them from Maryland, Virginia or the District of Columbia -- to its multibillion-dollar Seaport Enhanced multiple award contract.
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A search for investing opportunities in military and defense.
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SAN SALVADOR -- Juan Nerio, a 44-year-old mason's assistant, was sick of living in a mud hut on the side of a volcano. When he heard that an American company was offering six times his $200 monthly wage, he signed up. Six weeks later he found himself holding an AK-47 assault rifle and guarding a US diplomatic complex in Iraq.
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The Senate passed a defense policy bill that would offer more help to troops returning from combat and set conditions on contractors and pricey weapons programs.
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After human resources, finance and accounting and supply chain management, large corporations and government agencies are turning to outside contractors for security.
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Could the rock island arsenal be called upon to help even more with production for our US military? Currently workers are busy making armor plated doors Like these for hum-vees in Afghanistan and Iraq.
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Bullets, trucks and armor -- the meat and potatoes of the defense industry -- are back in fashion.
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Federal spending on contractors is expected to grow more quickly than it has historically, though not quite at the booming pace of the three years after Sept. 11, 2001.