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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
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
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
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
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
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
August 20, 2008
Rich Smith |
A SNAFU for JLTV The Army has pushed its decision regarding who will build the next version of the Hummer, the JLTV, all the way from June into October. |
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
August 22, 2011
Rich Smith |
Who Will Build America's Next Supertank? The Pentagon picks two teams to replace the Bradley armored personnel carrier. |
The Motley Fool
November 3, 2009
Rich Smith |
Pentagon's Plea: More Guns, Fewer Lawyers It seems the multiple members of the military-industrial complex just cannot play well with others. Every time one of them wins a contract from the government, the losers cry foul -- and call their attorneys to protest the award. |
The Motley Fool
September 19, 2011
Rich Smith |
Military Intelligence: No Longer a Misnomer Congress cuts funding for the poorly conceived plan to replace the Army's fleet of 140,000 Humvees with monstrous, heavily armored, gas-guzzling Joint Light Tactical Vehicles. |
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
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
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
June 20, 2011
Rich Smith |
News Flash: We're Still at War in Afghanistan And Navistar is benefiting. |
The Motley Fool
June 7, 2011
Rich Smith |
Textron Could Double Down on This Deal The Afghan army aims to acquire armored vehicles. |
The Motley Fool
July 18, 2011
Rich Smith |
Rethink Your Position on Defense Stocks America's involvement in the Afghan war isn't ending anytime soon. Nor are these companies' revenues, or profits, from the war. |
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
August 25, 2010
Rich Smith |
1,946 Reasons to Buy Force Protection Force reminds us: There's strength in numbers. |
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
August 27, 2010
Rich Smith |
America, Defenseless? Some of the nation's biggest defense contractors have begun receiving "Dear John" letters from the Pentagon. |
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
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
November 20, 2009
Rich Smith |
Boeing Wins! Over in the nation's capital, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has just overturned a lower court's ruling that stripped Boeing of its contract to service KC-135 refueling tankers. |
The Motley Fool
April 9, 2009
Rich Smith |
Lockheed Defenseless? Boeing Busted? Maybe, but there are also winners aplenty in the Pentagon's new budget. |
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
August 6, 2010
Rich Smith |
Armored Cars and Naked Capitalists Force Protection seeks profits where it finds 'em. |
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
January 21, 2009
Rich Smith |
Analyst Jumps the Gun on Force Protection Shares of Force Protection took a critical hit, hurt by negative comments and a downgrade to "hold" from market maven Collins Stewart. Was it justified? |
National Defense
September 2011
Sandra I. Erwin |
Army Truck Program a Test Case for Cutting Costs, And Profits A relatively small Army procurement -- the $3 billion family of medium tactical trucks -- is being watched closely by industry executives and investors as a harbinger of what might be in store for manufacturers of military equipment. |
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
March 9, 2010
Rich Smith |
Boeing Wins! The winner of the $40 billion KC-X Tanker contract is all but certain. So let's all give a great big round of applause to ... Northrop Grumman! But not because it won the contract. |
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
December 3, 2009
Rich Smith |
Did Boeing Just Win the Tanker Contract? Investors are bidding Boeing shares up on the assumption that the KC-X contract is now in the bag. That's a mistake. |
The Motley Fool
October 2, 2009
Rich Smith |
Northrop Beats Boeing Not in the big race (yet), but in the warm-up. |
The Motley Fool
January 22, 2010
Rich Smith |
KC-X Still M.I.A. Pentagon to defense contractors: On your mark, get set ... wait! |
The Motley Fool
October 2, 2009
Rich Smith |
Force Protection Hunkers Down The tiny manufacturer of really big armored trucks announced it will take a $2 million charge for severance payments as it downsizes its operations. |
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
March 13, 2008
Rich Smith |
Quit Crying, Boeing Boeing has filed its long-anticipated protest on the KC-X Tanker contract with the U.S. Air Force. |
National Defense
October 2012
Yasmin Tadjdeh |
Middle East MRAP Sales Give Hope to Truck Manufacturers Oshkosh Corp. inked a multi-million dollar deal to sell 750 of its off-road version of the MRAP to the United Arab Emirates. |
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
March 6, 2008
Rich Smith |
A Disturbance in the Force This company is a mess. |
The Motley Fool
October 6, 2009
Rich Smith |
6 Stocks That Never Surrender Let's see how these six defense stocks are doing in a fight to the finish versus the S&P 500: General Dynamics... Raytheon... Lockheed Martin... AeroVironment... iRobot... Force Protection... |
National Defense
January 2009
Sandra I. Erwin |
Industry Protests: Government Need Not Worry Pentagon officials have bemoaned the growing number of procurements that have been protested by industry. The rise in protests, however, appears to be overplayed |
The Motley Fool
September 5, 2008
Rich Smith |
General Dynamics Flanks Force Protection General Dynamics has landed a $102 million contract to sell mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicles to Spain, affecting a whole row of defense contractors operating in this market. |
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
July 2, 2009
Rich Smith |
This Just In: Upgrades and Downgrades The analysts who argued that Force Protection would win the contract now play a game of duck-and-cover. Dougherty & Co. and Collins Stewart both ditch their buy ratings on the stock. |
The Motley Fool
April 20, 2010
Rich Smith |
Boeing Beams, but Northrop's Grumblin' They took their ball and went home -- and no one cares. |
The Motley Fool
September 21, 2011
Rich Smith |
Danger! Budget Cuts Ahead! Congress takes an ax to defense projects. Who stands to lose their heads? |
The Motley Fool
March 17, 2004
Rich Smith |
General Dynamics Invades Britain U.S. defense contracting powerhouse General Dynamics looks set to corner the world market on armored vehicles. Last week, it announced plans to acquire Britain's Alvis best known as the maker of the Challenger 2 main battle tank and Warrior armored personnel carrie |
