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The Motley Fool September 24, 2007 Rich Smith	General Dynamics and the Double-Edged Petard Defense contractors are losing contracts due to cost-plus pricing, and are increasingly switching to fixed-price construction deals.
National Defense July 2004 Roxana Tiron	Lack of Specificity in Navy Shipbuilding Plans Irks the Industry Frustrated by perpetual fluctuations in U.S. Navy shipbuilding budgets, industry leaders are asking for funding stability.
National Defense May 2005 Sandra Erwin	Shipbuilding Strategy Makes Sure Bet on Uncertain Future War-strained Pentagon budgets, rising shipbuilding costs and inconsistent messages by the Navy's leadership are conspiring to bring about what could be a dramatic downsizing in the Navy.
National Defense March 2008 Alan L. Gropman	Government Action Needed to Fix Troubled Shipbuilding Sector The limited commercial market, combined with a decline in Navy orders, has resulted in excess production capacity, underused larger shipyards and high vessel costs.
The Motley Fool December 24, 2008 Rich Smith	Boatloads of Profit for General Dynamics and Northrop The U.S. Navy delivers a veritable boatload of certainty to both companies -- and that is meant literally.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2004 Ben Ames	Teams Build Competing Command-and-Control Systems for Littoral Combat Ships Navy planners are asking for two different prototypes of Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), the multimission warship designed to cruise shallow waters close to shore. Neither will use Aegis.
National Defense June 2011 Grace V. Jean	Navy's Shipbuilding Challenges Loom Large in the 2020s Builders of U.S. Navy ships are attempting to rein in costs that have doubled over the last 20 years.
National Defense May 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Gates' Rules Don't Apply to Navy Shipbuilding Intense pressure from members of Congress who want to protect employment at the nation's top shipyards will limit the Pentagon's options as it begins a sweeping review of military strategy and equipment needs.
National Defense September 2004 Harold Kennedy	Costs, Delays Surface Again for New Attack Submarines Just a year after U.S. Navy officials assured Congress that they had taken steps to stem rising costs and production delays for the newest family of nuclear-powered attack submarines, they now concede that problems may not have gone away.
The Motley Fool January 31, 2005 Rich Smith	The Best Offense All the talk of defense spending cuts has taken its toll on General Dynamics' stock over the past few weeks, knocking it down about 4% since the beginning of the year, and another percent or so on Friday.
National Defense August 2007 Grace Jean	Littoral Combat Ship Could Slip Behind Schedule as Price Tag Nears $500 Million In the midst of a contentious debate about the Navy's embattled littoral combat ship program, the service's coveted warship has come under fire by its own supporters on Capitol Hill.
The Motley Fool January 12, 2005 Rich Smith	A Good Day for General Dynamics $600 million in shipbuilding contracts have been awarded to a General Dynamics subsidiary.
The Motley Fool April 4, 2008 Rich Smith	Washington Post Indicts Military-Industrial Complex The Washington Post prints a seething report about over-expenditures in the military defense contracting business.
The Motley Fool August 28, 2008 Rich Smith	General Dynamics and Lockheed Deliver These two defense contractors deserve praise for their recent accomplishments.
The Motley Fool June 8, 2004 Rich Smith	Northrop Grumman Avoids Shoals Northrop Grumman's Newport News shipbuilding subsidiary strikes a deal with a United Steelworkers of America Local 8888.
National Defense April 2011 Grace V. Jean	Navy Needs to Consider 'Ownership' Costs, Yard Official Says For every dollar the Navy spends on buying a new ship, it pays an average of two dollars to operate and maintain the vessel throughout its 35-year service life.
National Defense May 2009 Grace V. Jean	Jury Still Out on Future of Littoral Combat Ship The Navy's littoral combat ship is under fire by lawmakers who are threatening to pull the plug at a time when the Obama administration is prepared to commit long-term funding to the program.
National Defense July 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Cost Goals for Littoral Combat Ship Overly Optimistic Navy Secretary Ray Mabus raised doubts in recent weeks that the service can meet a $460 million cost cap for the Littoral Combat Ship.
BusinessWeek March 8, 2004 Palmeri & Crock	Northrop's Heavy Artillery Northrop Grunnam has snapped up 16 major companies in the past 10 years.
The Motley Fool November 8, 2010 Rich Smith	Everybody's a Winner! Just about everybody's getting a Pentagon contract these days.
The Motley Fool June 15, 2004 Brian Gorman	Boeing's Ship Comes In Boeing's new contract to build aircraft for the Navy continues its string of positive news. The company's prospects remain good, but investors may want to wait for the shares to descend a bit before piling on board.
The Motley Fool September 25, 2007 Rich Smith	Quick Take: Will Northrop Overrun Aground? While defense contractors work to make manned combat a thing of the past, the Navy earmarks more money to Northrup for an obsolete aircraft carrier.
The Motley Fool January 23, 2008 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Northrop Is Shipshape In advance of earnings, analysts expect defense contractor Northrop Grumman to show a small increase in sales and an even smaller increase in profits.
The Motley Fool July 23, 2007 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Northrop Knocking at the Door The defense contractor is set to report its second-quarter earnings. Investors, here is what you can expect to see.
National Defense July 2010 Grace V. Jean	Shipyards Speed Up Submarine Production Amid Concerns About Navy's Future Budgets Beginning next year, the Navy plans to double the production rate to two submarines per year for $2.5 billion apiece.
The Motley Fool January 28, 2008 Rich Smith	Northrop Becomes a Guinea Pig Backlog refers to orders that have been booked and are expected to become revenue but haven't yet. Let's take a deeper look at backlog, using Northrop Grumman's fourth-quarter and full-year reports as an example.
National Defense November 2007 Grace Jean	Shipbuilders Forecast Exodus of Submarine Designers Builders of Navy submarines for years have tried to convince admirals and members of Congress that trouble lies ahead.
The Motley Fool July 25, 2007 Rich Smith	Orders Slow Down at Northrop Northrop ups 2007 earnings guidance, but the prospects of peace might be affecting the defense contractor.
The Motley Fool September 20, 2011 Rich Smith	DDG Me, ASAP It's full-speed ahead for General Dynamics' new ship contracts.
The Motley Fool June 3, 2011 Patrick Martin	Budget Cuts Won't Sink This Company The government is cutting spending, but that shouldn't hurt General Dynamics.
The Motley Fool April 29, 2008 Rich Smith	Northrop Misses the Boat This defense contractor appears to be struggling in the first quarter.
The Motley Fool December 30, 2003 Jeff Hwang	Boeing Gains Navy Contracts Boeing will receive $9.6 billion from Super Hornet and EA-18G contracts.
The Motley Fool December 6, 2010 Jim Royal	This Spinoff May Not Spin The government has a few questions for Northrop Grumman.
National Defense January 2008 Grace V. Jean	Ship Construction Costs Endanger Navy's Fleet Expansion With runaway shipbuilding costs, disruptions in key programs and competing budgetary needs, the Navy is heading into one of its toughest procurement cycles yet.
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2010 John Keller	Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman to Provide Computers for Navy CANES Shipboard Networking Program Northrop Grumman Corp. and Lockheed Martin Corp. will provide the U.S. Navy with shipboard computers for the Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services (CANES) program, under terms of contracts awarded in March.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2008 Edward J. Walsh	Navy Advances Surface-Ship Technologies Program managers go all-out on open systems and COTS to upgrade existing destroyers, cruisers, and other surface warships, while looking ahead to new destroyer and cruiser electronics and electro-optics technologies.
The Motley Fool November 7, 2008 Rich Smith	In Defense of Obama Given conventional wisdom, which suggests that Republicans would be more favorable to defense-industry companies, what might the effects be from Obama's administration?
The Motley Fool March 18, 2011 Rich Smith	Defense Cuts? What Defense Cuts? It's full speed ahead for General Dynamics ... and Lockheed Martin.
The Motley Fool July 18, 2011 Rich Smith	Get Rich With Defense Stocks? Yes, Really! If Congress takes an axe to the Pentagon's budget, defense contractors might actually have cause for celebration.
National Defense September 2009 Grace V. Jean	Lockheed Martin Tries to Lure International Customers for Littoral Combat Ship Lockheed Martin Corp. is advertising a "multi-mission" variant of the U.S. Navy's Littoral Combat Ship here in hopes of garnering international customers.
National Defense April 2014 Valerie Insinna	Littoral Combat Ship Faces Uncertain Future On Feb. 24, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel confirmed rumors that had been swirling around the littoral combat ship program for months -- instead of going forward with its planned 52 ship buy, purchases would be limited to 32.
The Motley Fool January 24, 2008 Rich Smith	Slow Motion for General Dynamics Investors fear that decreasing sales in the coming year may threaten the defense contractor's stock price.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2009 Edward J. Walsh	Navy steps out on MODERNIZATION Top Navy leaders are struggling to balance the right kind of ships, the best number of platforms, and the best mix of electronic and electro-optic technologies to meet the changing worldwide threats of the 21st century.
The Motley Fool September 14, 2011 Katie Spence	Budget Woes Are No Match for These Titans Defense companies may suffer from pressure on Capitol Hill to cut defense spending, but that's no reason to back out of defense investing. If anything, now is the time to get in at rock-bottom prices.
National Defense February 2009 Grace V. Jean	Navy's Shipbuilding Strategy Remains Under Fire A fleet of 278 ships today -- less than half of what it was two decades ago -- is likely to continue to shrink unless the Navy can contain the soaring costs of building new ships.
National Defense April 2005 Harold Kennedy	Navy Seeks to Simplify Ship Maintenance To keep ships ready to deploy, the U.S. Navy is working to reduce the time that its ships spend in maintenance.
The Motley Fool October 11, 2004 Brian Gorman	Defense Budget Boom The U.S. defense budget continues to rise and boost the major defense companies. But the war on terror may force some programs into early retirement.
National Defense August 2015 Jon Harper	Plan to Fund Ohio Replacement Submarine Reaches Tipping Point Much hangs on the outcome of the high stakes budget battle playing out in Washington, D.C., which will shape the future of Navy shipbuilding and potentially have major effects on the other services and the industrial base.
The Motley Fool April 3, 2007 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	iRobot Is in the Navy The consumer robotics specialist continues to make tactical inroads with its military products. Investors, take note.