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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 12, 2011 Rich Smith	Force Protection and the War on Terrorized Defense Investors Osama bin Laden is still dead. Is the defense industry dead, too?
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 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 November 13, 2009 Rich Smith	6 Stocks That Never Surrender In the continuing battle between the S&P 500 and six defense stocks, let's see how the stocks are doing: General Dynamics... Raytheon... Lockheed martin... AeroVironment... iRobot... Force Protection...
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 November 9, 2010 Rich Smith	Force Protection Routed Yet its stock price holds firm, and even advances.
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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 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.
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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.
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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 June 20, 2011 Rich Smith	News Flash: We're Still at War in Afghanistan And Navistar is benefiting.
National Defense April 2014 Dan Parsons	Lawsuit Stalls Special Operations Ground Mobility Vehicle Program A new truck for special operators could have been bought in a swift, purposeful 18-month acquisition process. Instead, it is stuck in limbo pending a lawsuit from a losing manufacturer.
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.
National Defense February 2013 Dan Parsons	Smaller Trucks Seen as Lucrative Business in U.S. and Abroad Riding a wave of special operations successes and the expectation that funding will flow toward elite forces in the future, vehicle manufacturers are staking millions of dollars on bids to supply those shadowy warriors with new trucks.
The Motley Fool November 11, 2008 Rich Smith	Force Protection Enters the Minefield Where have all the mine resistant ambush protected vehicles gone?
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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.
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The Motley Fool January 12, 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 by defense industry stocks.
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National Defense February 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	Military Services in the Market for 4,000 Blast-Proof Vehicles Expectations that U.S. troops will not leave Iraq for the foreseeable future have prompted the military services to request an additional 4,000 mine-resistant armored vehicles.
National Defense October 2012 Eric Beidel	No Stranger to Scrutiny, New Truck Program Forges Ahead The Army and Marine Corps announced contract awards for the engineering and manufacturing development phase of the marquee truck program, which is supposed to give troops greater off-road mobility than a Humvee.
The Motley Fool April 3, 2009 Rich Smith	The Best Defense Is ... Good Intel Your Foolish summary of the week's biggest defense industry news.
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National Defense February 2013 Stew Magnuson	Long Road Remains for JLTV Despite Technology's Maturity In November, the Army-Marine Corps' Joint Light Tactical Vehicle program will be seven years old. Time flies when a major military acquisition program is involved.
National Defense February 2007 Harold Kennedy	Army, Marines to Acquire 50,000 New Trucks to Replace Humvees A fistful of defense companies will be vying to win a contract to develop a replacement for the humvee -- the Army and Marine Corps' light, all-terrain truck.
National Defense September 2011 David C. Ake	Why Troops Love, and Sometimes Hate, the MRAP To date, more than 27,000 MRAPs have been produced. Nearly 15,000 are now in Afghanistan. Commanders there have all but phased out the use of flat-bottomed Humvees outside the wire. About 2,000 MRAPs remain in the United States for training.
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