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The Motley Fool November 14, 2008 Rich Smith	A Contract Is Awarded, and Humvee Hilarity Ensues Boeing and Textron complain to the Government Accountability Office about having lost the Pentagon's Humvee contract. Northrop Grumman, and Oshkosh have filed protests as well.
The Motley Fool October 13, 2010 Rich Smith	Pentagon Contractors Risk Death by a Billion Cuts UK mirrors Pentagon spending cuts on a smaller scale.
The Motley Fool May 12, 2009 Rich Smith	Force Protection Blasts Past Wall Street With a share price valuing the company at just 0.4 times last year's sales, Force deserves a future in your portfolio.
The Motley Fool August 11, 2009 Rich Smith	Time to Buy Force Protection? Revenues for this armored vehicle maker look fine, but profits went up in smoke.
The Motley Fool November 5, 2007 Ron Vlieger	Oshkosh on the Road Again Truck manufacturer Oshkosh's merger with construction equipment maker JLG seems to be working; the company announced sales nearly double the previous year's pre-merger totals.
The Motley Fool November 21, 2007 Rich Smith	This Ain't Your Mama's Humvee The biggest names in armored warfare are gearing up to vie for the Pentagon's Joint Light Tactical Vehicle program, which could be worth between $10 billion to $70 billion to the winner.
The Motley Fool July 1, 2009 Rich Smith	And the Winner Is ... Oshkosh! (By Gosh!) The Pentagon awards the first $1 billion installment on the contract for off-road MRAP armored vehicles to Wisconsin-based heavy industrialist Oshkosh Corp.
The Motley Fool August 1, 2007 Rich Smith	Oshkosh on the Open Road Oshkosh Truck, maker of all species of trucks, from fire trucks to cement mixers to armored vehicles, reports higher sales and profits, but optimistic statements regarding MRAP need to be taken with a grain of salt.
The Motley Fool January 30, 2009 Rich Smith	Oshkosh B'Gone? The heavy truck maker's business is so bad that its bankers will soon be able to demand early payment on an unknown portion of Oshkosh's $2.6 billion in long-term debt.
The Motley Fool January 21, 2010 Rich Smith	Boeing Rival Implodes The worse things get for EADS' A400M, the better Boeing's C-17 looks.
The Motley Fool March 18, 2009 Rich Smith	EADS' Loss Is Boeing's Gain The A400M's flaws are catching up to it, vaulting Boeing into the lead.
The Motley Fool June 30, 2010 Rich Smith	Pentagon to Defense Contractors: We've Got Your Back As Defense Secretary Robert Gates reiterated plans to cut in excess of $100 billion from Pentagon spending over the next five years, they also try to reassure that they're not out to hurt anyone -- least of all investors.
The Motley Fool June 15, 2011 Rich Smith	Boeing Scores Touchdown in India There's a new world order for U.S. defense contractors.
The Motley Fool August 28, 2009 Rich Smith	Hear Oshkosh Roar! For shareholders in military trucker Oshkosh, it's shaping up to be a fine summer indeed.
The Motley Fool February 23, 2010 Rich Smith	6 Stocks That Never Surrender In a fight to the finish versus the S&P 500, no quarter will be asked, none given for defense industry stocks.
The Motley Fool January 16, 2009 Rich Smith	Boeing Wins by Default Continued delays in EADS contract to build A400Ms has led Britain to look to Boeing as an alternative.
The Motley Fool August 9, 2011 Rich Smith	Another Defense Stock Bites the Dust The Wall Street Journal takes Oshkosh to the woodshed.
The Motley Fool August 6, 2010 Rich Smith	Armored Cars and Naked Capitalists Force Protection seeks profits where it finds 'em.
The Motley Fool March 17, 2010 Rich Smith	Invasion of the Boeing-Snatchers EADS hopes to snatch victory from mouth of defeat.
The Motley Fool May 30, 2008 Rich Smith	'Tis the Season for JLTVs Let's review the several defense contractors bidding for a piece of the $70 billion contract to build the Army's next Humvee.
The Motley Fool October 19, 2007 Rich Smith	Force Protection Dances a Jig A $1.2 billion Pentagon award to produce additional mine-resistant, ambush-protected armored vehicles is divided between Force Protection and two other defense contractors.
The Motley Fool July 17, 2009 Rich Smith	6 Stocks That Never Surrender One Motley Fool analyst chooses six defense stocks that he believes will beat the market. Let's see how they are doing in week one.
The Motley Fool May 31, 2007 Rich Smith	Cowboys and Indians The Bush administration lands an arms sale to the subcontinent. The administration announced that it will permit India to buy six Lockheed Martin C-130J cargo planes.
The Motley Fool January 10, 2008 Rich Smith	Who Wants to Be a 70-Billionaire? Defense companies Northrop Grumman and Oshkosh team up to bid for their share of the military transport vehicle contracts.
The Motley Fool October 28, 2008 Rich Smith	JLTV Program Gets Smaller, Slower For five long months, we've been awaiting word of who would win the JLTV competition. It seems the military just can't decide who's going to build the darn thing.
The Motley Fool August 2, 2010 Rich Smith	Force Protection: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats How does the world's smallest arms manufacturer stack up?
The Motley Fool August 21, 2006 Rich Smith	Boeing's Brinksmanship Rumors of the C-17's demise look greatly exaggerated. Will Boeing's Globemaster III go the way of the Spruce Goose? Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool May 7, 2009 Rich Smith	M-ATV Bids: The Pentagon Picks Its Winners The Pentagon narrowed the field of contenders to just five companies, and asked each one to provide it with three prototype M-ATVs to test. Read on to see who the winners are.
The Motley Fool May 6, 2009 Rich Smith	Boeing Steals Lockheed's Thunder (Er, Lightning) Boeing is the contractor bleeding the most from the defense cuts that Defense Secretary Gates proposed last month. Yet (at the risk of mixing some metaphors) Boeing's showing that this old dog still has a few tricks up its sleeve.
The Motley Fool November 11, 2008 Rich Smith	Force Protection Enters the Minefield Where have all the mine resistant ambush protected vehicles gone?
The Motley Fool July 29, 2009 Rich Smith	General Dynamics Boards a Jet Plane "Tanks for the airplane orders," says the armored vehicle maker.
The Motley Fool June 15, 2006 Tim Beyers	Airbus in a Holding Pattern The company delays jet deliveries; Boeing may be bogged down, too. Investors, take note.
BusinessWeek July 26, 2004 Rachel Tiplady	EADS: Europe's Giant Keeps Climbing European Aeronautic Defense & Space Co. is proving that a European transnational company can not only be efficiently run but also profitable.
The Motley Fool June 29, 2011 Rich Smith	Obama on Afghanistan The troops come out, the money stays in. For shareholders of defense contractors, one of the biggest worries today is the fear that MidEast pullouts will drain away revenues from defense contractors.
The Motley Fool October 1, 2008 Rich Smith	Oshkosh Promises, B'Gosh Investors reacted positively to Oshkosh's Friday announcement that things aren't quite as bleak as we once thought.
The Motley Fool June 18, 2009 Rich Smith	Force Protection: Battle-Tested, Wall Street-Approved Investment banking firm Collins Stewart declares that now's the time to double down on Force's chances of winning the Pentagon's vaunted "M-ATV" armored vehicle contract.
The Motley Fool June 6, 2007 Rich Smith	Force Protection's Shredded Storybook Second order for MRAP armored vehicles goes to a surprise winner. The 18,000 sales that investors had priced into the stock have been ripped from the pages of this storybook story. How the story will end, is anyone's guess.
The Motley Fool February 20, 2009 Rich Smith	Boeing Gets the Boot Boeing's challenge of a Pentagon award to build America's Next Top Humvee has been definitively rejected. And that could be good news for investors.
The Motley Fool August 3, 2009 Rich Smith	6 Stocks That Never Surrender While I'm certainly not rooting against a broad-based economic recovery, I'm convinced that my six star defense companies will perform just fine in any economy.
The Motley Fool October 30, 2008 Rich Smith	JLTV Me ASAP The Pentagon decides America's next Humvee is almost certainly going to be built by BAE/Lockheed, BAE/Navistar, and General Dynamics.
The Motley Fool June 21, 2011 Rich Smith	Boeing Scores an Upset Boeing has landed some punches at the Paris Air Show, inking deals for the 787, 777, 747-8, and outselling Airbus on the high end.
The Motley Fool February 19, 2010 Rich Smith	Boeing Curries Favor in India And they need to, because Lockheed's F-35 is on its way.
BusinessWeek October 29, 2009	Reforming the Weapons Budget White House efforts to curtail military spending have had mixed results. Here are some examples.
The Motley Fool December 7, 2009 Rich Smith	6 Stocks That Never Surrender In a fight to the finish versus the S&P 500, no quarter will be asked, none given for defense industry stocks.
The Motley Fool December 2, 2010 Rich Smith	Force Protection: So Cheap, So Many Questions Force Protection's recently won contract to build Ocelot armored cars for the British Army is going ahead full-speed.
The Motley Fool April 7, 2010 Rich Smith	Who Can Beat Boeing? EADS is looking for friends (but in all the wrong places?)
The Motley Fool May 28, 2009 Rich Smith	Boeing and Lockheed Lock Sights on India The subcontinent nears a decision.
The Motley Fool December 20, 2007 Rich Duprey	Ceradyne Gives a One-Two Punch Defense contractor Ceradyne books two big contracts in one day. Investors take note; even better days may lie ahead.
The Motley Fool January 13, 2009 Rich Smith	Navistar Rolls Into Canada Its stock price is stalled, but the truck maker could pick up momentum.
The Motley Fool February 22, 2008 Rich Smith	Force Protection Not Dead Yet Force Protection lands a $115 million contract to provide 174 mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicles to the British military.