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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Fast and flexible. Sounds like an Olympic athlete, but it&#39;s the Bush administration&#39;s description of the kind of fighting force the US needs if it wants to confront 21st century security threats.
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Some of the Pentagon's largest contractors, including Boeing Co. and Lockheed Martin Corp., will begin a joint effort today to encourage development of technology standards that will ensure weapons systems of the future can communicate with each other. -The Washington Post
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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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Part-time workers, contractors, and early retirees who usually wouldn't qualify for corporate health insurance could get coverage under a plan unveiled yesterday by a consortium of dozens of large companies.
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It's a new year and there's a new pay policy at the Defense Department.
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After two years of planning and evaluation, enhanced insurance coverage for bad teeth and weak eyes will be offered to federal employees, retirees and their dependents this fall through contracts awarded to 10 companies.
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Elite military forces are conducting special counterterrorism missions in support of civilian agencies in the United States.
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Valued at upward of $140 billion over the next five years, the growing U.S. homeland security market is luring a range of suppliers, including many defense firms hedging against a slowdown in war spending.
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The company will find a competitive environment after moving aggressively into the security space.
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By John Norton, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Dec. 8--With work finally moving forward on Pueblo's chemical demilitarization program, $46.2 million in contracts have been awarded this year through the end of November, much of it to local firms.
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The Defense Department plans to continue hiring private contractors to provide security at reconstruction projects in Iraq and to train U.S. and Iraqi military officers in counterinsurgency, despite problems with past contracts for such jobs that traditionally have been done by military personnel.
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Government buildings are to be provided with defences to stop them being rammed by cars or trucks packed with explosives.
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See how this contract driller plans to survive the cyclical oil and gas industry.
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The Defense Secretary pushes his generals to field a larger and more aggressive clandestine force
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A year ago, Daniel L. Smith took the helm of Waltham defense contractor Raytheon Co.'s largest unit in Massachusetts, Integrated Defense Systems, with 8,200 employees. The Tewksbury unit is best known for making the Patriot missile defense system used in Kuwait and Iraq, and advanced radars and naval systems.
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Defense department contractor initiates partial rollout to show other companies how it's done.