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The U.S. defense budget for fiscal 2022 is about 4.5% higher than it was in 2021. Defense contractors stand to benefit, and these five are the best when it comes to sharing their luck with investors.
4 months ago
Analysts at Canaccord Genuity remain generally bullish on the defense sector despite a likely flattening and eventual decline in the military budget.
1 year ago
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Could Lockheed Martin be leading the development of the U.S. Air Force's next-generation fighter plane?
1 year ago
The Air Force has designed, built, and flown a prototype for a new fighter jet in less than one year. Is the defense business in for a massive shift?
2 years ago
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Northrop Grumman has received a $13.3 billion Air Force contract to begin engineering and manufacturing development to modernize the U.S. nuclear weapons force.
2 years ago
The U.S. Air Force's top acquisitions official has suggested that the Defense Department may have to nationalize some parts of the supply chain in order to overcome a shrinking defense industrial...
2 years ago
Northrop Grumman investors are concerned that the federal government will slow spending on some defense programs to pay the expected high costs to combat the coronavirus outbreak in the United States.
2 years ago
Serious problems with the Lockheed F-35 fighter jet and the Boeing KC-46 refueling tanker continue to cause delivery delays and acceptance by the Air Force.
2 years ago
The U.S. Defense Department is ramping up spending on programs to develop missiles capable of speeds greater than 15,000 mph.
2 years ago
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Defense stocks had a very good 2019, and military gear makers are expecting 2020 to be another solid year. Heightened tensions in the Middle East aren't hurting either.
2 years ago
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2019 was a very good year for the top U.S. defense firms. Most posted double-digit share price gains and a wave of consolidation could push more gains in the year ahead.
2 years ago
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The U.S. Army is seeking proposals to build a pilot plant in the United States to refine rare earth elements used in many weapons systems.
2 years ago
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The fight over the Pentagon’s Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) pact is going to continue for quite some time.
2 years ago
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It's one thing to have won the $10 billion JEDI cloud contract from the Department of Defense, but it's more important to consider how Microsoft might be able to use this over Amazon and AWS as the...
2 years ago
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Boeing successfully completed the first test flight of its unmanned refueling tanker for the U.S. Navy and continues to work on both major and minor issues on its much-delayed KC-46 Air Force tanker.
3 years ago
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