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| US: Contractors Vie for Plum Work, Hacking for U.S. Government by CHRISTOPHER DREW and JOHN MARKOFF, New York Times May 30th, 2009 The Obama administration’s push into cyberwarfare has set off a rush among the biggest military companies for billions of dollars in new defense contracts. Nearly all of the largest military companies — including Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin and Raytheon — have major cyber contracts with the military and intelligence agencies. |
| US: Contracting Boom Could Fizzle Out by Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post April 7th, 2009 The surge in the U.S. military contracting workforce would ebb under Defense Secretary Gates's budget proposal as the Pentagon moves to replace private workers with full-time civil servants. The move could affect companies such as CACI and SAIC. "We are right-sizing the defense acquisition workforce so we can improve our contract oversight and get a better deal for the taxpayers," said the Pentagon's director of defense procurement and acquisition policy. |
| US: Gates Proposes Major Changes to Military Programs, Weapons Buys by August Cole, Wall Street Journal April 6th, 2009 Defense Secretary Robert Gates unveiled a sweeping overhaul of the Pentagon's top weapons priorities. The shake-up, a combination of defense contract cutbacks and policy changes, will stoke a smoldering debate in Congress, with cuts proposed for Lockheed Martin Corp.'s F-22 Raptor and replacement of the president's fleet of Marine One helicopters. |
| ISRAEL: U.S.-Israel jet deal sought: Pentagon backs sale of next-generation F-35s fighters to ally by Stephen Manning, Chicago Tribune October 2nd, 2008 The Defense Department said this week that it wants to sell as many as 75 fighter jets to Israel in a $15.2 billion deal for the aircraft expected to be the mainstay of air power in the United States and several other nations for decades. |
| ISRAEL: U.S. approves $330 million in arms deals for Israel by Andrea Shalal-Esa, Reuters September 9th, 2008 The U.S. government on Tuesday said it had approved up to $330 million in three separate arms deals for Israel, and sources tracking a much bigger deal for 25 Lockheed Martin Corp F-35 fighter jets said that agreement could be approved later this month. |
| US: Lockheed Faulted for Failure to Control Costs by Dana Hedgpeth, Washington Post June 4th, 2008 Lockheed Martin, the biggest U.S. defense contractor, failed to follow military guidelines to track and manage costs on major weapons programs, according to an internal Pentagon document released yesterday by a government watchdog group. |
| INDIA: Gates in India to push US firms BBC News Online February 26th, 2008 Mr Gates is expected to spend his two-day visit lobbying for US firms that hope to win a contract to supply India with 126 new fighter jets. |
| US: Failure to Launch: In Death of Spy Satellite Program, Lofty Plans and Unrealistic Bids by Philip Taubman, New York Times November 11th, 2007 Collapse of a government funded project to build new spy satellites was all but inevitable. |
| US: Fort Huachuca intelligence center draws private contractors by Mike Sunnucks, Phoenix Business Journal November 7th, 2007 An increasing amount of U.S. intelligence work -- including training related to aggressive interrogation methods -- is being parceled out to defense firms making Arizona's Fort Huachuca a major contracting hub. |
| US: Toxins Threaten to Uproot Entire Town by Mark Weisenmiller, IPS News November 5th, 2007 The mostly African American citizens of a small town in rural Florida suffer severely because of a beryllium leak at a Lockheed Martin-owned plant. |
| US: Lockheed Looks Beyond Weapon: Contractor Targets Growth With Services in Strife-Torn Areas by August Cole, Wall Street Journal September 24th, 2007 Lockheed looks to secure more U.S. government contracts for other services from managing military bases and embassies to helping writing constitutions for developing nations. |
| INDIA: Building a Modern Arsenal in India by Heather Timmons and Somini Sengupta, The New York Times August 31st, 2007 India is developing a military appetite to match its growing economic power. With a ballooning arms budget, India will soon become one of the largest military markets in the world, making it an important new target for American arms manufacturers. |
| US: Lockheed Stock and Two Smoking Barrels by Richard Cummings, Playboy.com January 16th, 2007 If you think the Iraq war hasn't worked out very well for anyone, think again. Defense contractors such as Lockheed are thriving. And no wonder: Here's the story how Lockheed's interests- as opposed to those of the American citizenry- set the course of U.S. policy after 9/11. |
| CANADA: Our side of defence
by Jorge Barrera, The Ottawa Times August 20th, 2006 Ottawa may have the reputation of a government town, but it's also home to Canada's military-industrial complex. |
| US: Federal contracts up 86% under Bush; Halliburton rises 600% Raw Story June 20th, 2006 Top contractor Lockheed got contracts larger than budget of Congress, Dept. of Interior |
| US: Bush Turns to Big Military Contractors for Border Control by Eric Lipton, The New York Times May 18th, 2006 The quick fix may involve sending in the National Guard. But to really patch up the broken border, President Bush is preparing to turn to a familiar administration partner: the nation's giant military contractors. |
| US: Boeing-Lockheed Granted Monopoly by Andy Pasztor and Jonathan Karp, Wall Street Journal January 7th, 2006 The Pentagon has given preliminary approval to a joint venture between Boeing Co. and Lockheed Martin Corp. for military-rocket launches, endorsing a rare monopoly that could set a precedent for defense contractors facing slower military spending, said industry and government officials. |
| US: Lockheed Wins $869 Mln US Navy Missile Contract Reuters December 20th, 2005 The U.S. Navy on Tuesday said it awarded Lockheed Martin Corp. an $869 million contract to fund continued production of Trident II submarine-launched ballistic missiles in fiscal year 2006. |
| US: Lockheed Martin Is Hired to Bolster Transit Security in N.Y. by Sewell Chan and Shadi Rahimi, The New York Times August 23rd, 2005 A new world of transit security in New York City began to take form this morning, as officials disclosed plans to saturate the transit system with 1,000 video cameras, 3,000 motion detectors and a wide array of sophisticated gadgets, all intended to buffer the city's subways, bridges and tunnels from a terror attack. |
| US: Business booming for U.S. defense contractors by Peter Bauer, Menafn August 20th, 2005 U.S. defence contractors are riding high these days, buoyed by rising Pentagon spending on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as the high cost of homeland security in the U.S.-declared war on terror. The fiscal 2006 defence budget is set to climb to 441 billion dollars, an increase of 21 billion dollars over 2005. It envisions an additional 50 billion dollars for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. |