The Department of Defense awarded $409 million in defense contracts Friday. Hewlett Packard won the day's largest award. The company will continue to providing information technology services at nearly 2,500 Navy and…
The U.S. Department of Defense awarded 7 contracts on June 4 totaling $194.5 million. The recipients included: Rolls Royce, Lockheed Martin, and Raytheon.
Lockheed Martin won a $915 million contract from the Pentagon for work on the U.S. Air Force's Space Fence program. The defense company's mission will be to track 'space junk' orbiting the…
ThinkstockThe Department of Defense awarded 17 defense contracts with a total value of $554.6 million in its Thursday evening announcement of contract awards. Textron (NYSE: TXT) took home contracts representing nearly half…
Wikimedia CommonsSome of America’s most well-known companies went through big changes before becoming the dominant corporations they are today. The origin of one of today’s most famous beauty products company is door-to-door book distribution.…
ThinkstockThe Department of Defense awarded 17 defense contracts in its Wednesday evening announcement of contract awards. The total value of these contracts was $574.8 million. Among the publicly traded companies winning contracts:…
Credit: Lockheed MartinThere are Russians running around Crimea. Chinese warships are prowling the Pacific and doing doughnuts around the Indian Ocean. Drug cartels boast military-grade weapons in their arsenals in Mexico. And in…
DefenseImagery.milSo you’ve got your eye on this sweet new ride — an Oliver Perry-class guided missile frigate — but you’re a little short on cash. What do you do? DefenseImagery.mil Perry-class…
In the world of defense spending, and defense investing, everything old is becoming new again — aircraft carriers especially. Over the past several months, defense news headlines have been dominated by reports…
ThinkstockThe Department of Defense awarded 14 defense contracts in its Friday evening announcement of contract awards. Several publicly traded companies were among the winners of contracts that totaled $642.8 million. Among the…
ThinkstockThis last week was less noisy on the corporate news front now that earnings season has ended, but several dividend hikes took place which should really matter to investors. The markets have been busy…
Global military spending was down in 2012 for the first time since 1998. Based on figures compiled by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), 24/7 Wall St. examined the 10 companies…
courtesy Boeing Co.Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel was to release a budget proposal Monday that would reduce the size of the U.S. Army to levels not seen since before World War II. So,…
Despite last year's sequester and numerous walls of worry to climb, the defense and aerospace stocks have shined. In a new research report, UBS suggests that most of the money has been…
These are the top analyst upgrades, downgrades and initiations seen from Wall Street research firms on Friday, January 31, 2014. They include Amazon.com, Citrix Systems, Google, LabCorp and Raytheon.
