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National Defense
June 2007
Breanne Wagner |
Production is Meeting War Requirements, But Modernization Still Lacking A shortage of small caliber ammunition during the first years of the Iraq war prompted the Army to quickly ramp up production through a number of public/private partnerships.   |
National Defense
September 2004
Roxana Tiron |
U.S. Army Considers Changing Acquisition Strategy for Small-Caliber Ammunition Facing soaring demand for small-caliber ammunition, the U.S. Army is turning to industry to dramatically increase the production of rifle and machine gun rounds. |
National Defense
January 2014
Seraphin & Palaschak |
Budget Cuts, Inadequate Planning Put Munitions Industrial Base in Peril Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno has warned about a return to the hollow Army that resulted from post-Vietnam War reductions in defense funding. He said the nation must avoid a dangerous repeat. |
National Defense
March 2010
Holmes & Palachak |
Munitions Industry Prepares for Downturn If munitions industrial capabilities disappear following ammunition budget cuts, any rescue efforts will be expensive and create significant turbulence in the sector. |
National Defense
March 2013
Dan Parsons |
Military Seeks Lighter, Stronger Ammo Recognizing that rifle design using gunpowder and self-contained cartridges has neared the zenith of engineering, firearms manufacturers are turning to ammunition as a possible source of further weight reduction. |
National Defense
June 2007
Holmes & Seraphin |
Munitions Industrial Base: Trouble on the Horizon The concerns are not merely theoretical or speculative. They are based on historical facts. |
National Defense
November 2005
Sandra I. Erwin |
Commerce Dept. Seeks Data on Industries Affected by Katrina The defense industry is reporting specific production or supply problems resulting from recent hurricanes. Of particular concern is the damage to liquid hydrogen plants, which could affect defense suppliers in the space and munitions sectors. |
BusinessWeek
July 4, 2005
Stan Crock |
The Little Contractor That Could Alliant Techsystems Inc., a no-frills weapons maker is beating out some top guns to supply the military. |
The Motley Fool
February 2, 2005
Stephen D. Simpson |
Propelling Itself to Big Profits Ammo gets all the press, but defense company Alliant Techsystems has a much broader reach. These shares trade for about 17 times earnings and a whopping 42 enterprise value-to-free cash flow ratio. |
National Defense
May 2008
Lawrence P. Farrell Jr. |
Defense Industrial Base: Plans Needed to Ensure Soft Landing It is probably not too early to contemplate what sectors of the U.S. defense industrial base should brace for a hard landing after the huge war supplemental budgets begin to wane. |
National Defense
August 2004
Roxana Tiron |
Army Will Boost Supply of Small Cal Ammo, Weapons Soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan are consuming small caliber ammunition at rates the U.S. Army has not seen in years. |
The Motley Fool
May 7, 2004
Seth Jayson |
Number One With a Bullet Alliant Techsystems, the army's only provider of small-arms cartridges, brings in record revenues on small-arms ammo. |
National Defense
November 2015
Jim Schatz |
U.S. Military Losing Edge in Small Arms The current U.S. Army small arms development and acquisition system is dysfunctional and virtually unworkable, even for those within the system. |
National Defense
September 2005
Joe Pappalardo |
Army Developing Advanced Ammo for Abrams Tank To be more useful in urban battlefields, the Army's main battle tank needs to be armed with advanced multipurpose rounds that can be adapted for use against different types of targets. |
The Motley Fool
April 16, 2008
Rich Duprey |
5 All-Star Stocks When top-notch investors back a stock, you might want to give it more consideration. |
National Defense
August 2009
Grace Jean |
Weapons Experts Working to Lighten Troops' Small Arms Load Technologists are working to cut small arms weight in half without compromising firepower, and so far prototypes of a redesigned machine gun and ammunition are demonstrating the art of the possible. |
The Motley Fool
May 5, 2006
Stephen D. Simpson |
Alliant Techsystems Still on Target The defense company's performance is solid, but the stock has had a good run. |
Popular Mechanics
August 14, 2007
Erik Sofge |
Top 4 New Breakthrough Combat Devices: Live @ DARPATech Here are some of the programs that might give U.S. warfighters an edge: ATK caseless ammunition system... Crosswinds Sensor System for Snipers... etc. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
May 2008 |
In Brief Boeing flies fuel cell-powered airplane... Lockheed Martin to support DOD high-performance computing centers... General Dynamics awarded $159 million for Abrams tank work... etc. |
The Motley Fool
August 3, 2011
Andrew Dominguez |
Pentagon Budget Cuts: Hedge Funds Start Dumping Defense Stocks Do you think these companies are in the line of fire in the upcoming spending cuts? |
Fast Company
June 2002
Charles Fishman |
Boomtown, U.S.A. Far from the front lines of combat, there is a place where people do the unlikeliest work imaginable. Here is the story of the men and women of McAlester, Oklahoma, who run the factory that makes virtually every non-nuclear bomb in the U.S. arsenal... |
National Defense
September 2004
Sandra I. Erwin |
Technical Skills Shortage Hurts Pentagon's Bottom Line Unless current trends change, decision makers at the Defense Department may one day find that they lack a strategy for how to keep critical military programs from spinning out of control. |
National Defense
August 2013
Dan Parsons |
Carbine Competition Fails to Find Improvement Over Current Weapon The Army has officially called off its search for an M4 carbine replacement without anything to show for five years of effort other than data suggesting that its current weapons work about as well, if not better, than anything industry had to offer. |
BusinessWeek
April 25, 2005
Palmeri & Crock |
Evening The Odds In A Guerrilla War Helped by feedback from Iraq, companies are speeding up weapons design. Defense contractors are also looking to retool weapons. |
National Defense
June 2007
Stew Magnuson |
Skeptics Watch Cannon Progress Closely The Future Combat Systems non-line-of-sight cannon, currently weighing 27 tons, will be the first large piece of FCS equipment to be delivered to a brigade for evaluation. |
The Motley Fool
February 2, 2006
Stephen D. Simpson |
Alliant Looks to Blend Old and New A mix of steady cash-rich businesses and newer high-growth opportunities should work out well. Investors may want to dig and decide if the valuation here warrants a buy. |
