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Boeing takes $200 million Q4 charge on Air Force tanker program, and sees field for Air Force training jet narrow as Raytheon-led team drops out of the competition.
The U.S. Army awarded a contract valued at $580 million to Sig Sauer to purchase up to 500,000 new service pistols to replace the Beretta M9, which has been the Army's handgun of choice for 30 years.
Boeing spent much of 2016 in the dog house, but a big rally in the fourth quarter enabled the stock to generate a total return of more than 11% in 2016.
The Air Force is looking to purchase 17 E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (JSTARS) planes that were first deployed as tank hunters in 1991 during Operation Desert Storm.
The U.S. Air Force released its final request for proposal on Friday for a fleet of some 350 new training jets. A winner is expected to be named sometime in 2017.
The CEOs of the world's two largest defense contractors met with President-elect Trump on Wednesday and, while first reports of the meetings were pretty ordinary, Trump decided to raise the stakes...
Boeing has held its first test flight of its proposed new T-X training jet for the U.S. Air Force. The most remarkable thing about the flight is that it occurred just one year after Boeing certified...
Any day now the U.S. Air Force is expected to release the final version of its request for proposal (RFP) to build a new training jet to replace the decades old T-38. Four teams have long indicated...
Shares of Lockheed Martin traded down nearly 3% in Monday's premarket after Donald Trump called the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program "out of control."
Under a continuing resolution due for a vote this week, the Department of Defense will receive enough funds to pay for full-rate production of the new Boeing-built Air Force KC-46A tanker.
After AeroVironment reported second-quarter fiscal 2017 late on Tuesday, shares plunged early on Wednesday.
24/7 Wall St. wanted to evaluate some basic statistics from Pearl Harbor and for the United States from the war years of 1941 to 1945 versus modern times.
The recent stock price pullbacks in the gun stocks have caught some analysts and investors by surprise. Frankly, it shouldn't have been a shock at all.
If the Navy can make a strong argument to the Congress and the Trump administration, the appropriation needed to buy Super Hornets could be included in the fiscal year 2018 budget.
Boeing and its partner, Saab, are preparing their entry in the contest to build a new training jet for the U.S. Air Force for its first flight before the end of the year.