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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 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 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 6, 2010 Rich Smith	Armored Cars and Naked Capitalists Force Protection seeks profits where it finds 'em.
The Motley Fool June 29, 2009 Rich Smith	Who Wants to Be a Pentagon Billionaire? The clock's ticking down to the final minutes on the Pentagon's multibillion-dollar purchase of an estimated 5,200 all-terrain armored vehicles for the war in Afghanistan. Let's review the situation.
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 December 11, 2006 Brian Gorman	Defense Contractors Under Attack? The stage could be set for budget shifts that will hurt some defense contractors and help others. It's a story investors should be following.
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 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 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 June 20, 2011 Rich Smith	News Flash: We're Still at War in Afghanistan And Navistar is benefiting.
The Motley Fool March 11, 2010 Rich Smith	Force Protection Can Play Offense, Too Force Protection's CEO Michael Moody has restructured the company, rolled back Force's manufacturing infrastructure, and focused on the company's core strength in innovating new defense technologies.
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...
BusinessWeek March 5, 2007 Kopecki & Holmes	Ready To Come Back To Earth Defense is blazing hot. But most stocks are already in the stratosphere.
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?
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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.
National Defense February 2013 Stew Magnuson	The MRAP: Reuse, Recycle, Reduce The Army in November awarded BAE Systems a $37.6 million contract to provide the spare parts and kits needed to convert 250 Mine Resistant Ambush-Protected vehicles into trucks for bomb disposal teams.
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.
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The Motley Fool November 17, 2011 Navjot Kaur	This Defense Contractor Just Got More Protection General Dynamics acquires Force Protection for a 31% premium.
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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 November 4, 2009 Rich Smith	Oshkosh Waves Wand, Says "Debt, Begone!" But not all of it, nor fast enough. Military trucker Oshkosh continued to stay one step ahead of the competition this week.
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Popular Mechanics July 2007 Erik Sofge	Super Humvee: Marine Truck to Dodge Bombs in Iraq While no vehicle is IED-proof, the Marines have placed an order for 1000 mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicles, or MRAPs -- which are better armored than a Humvee.
The Motley Fool August 9, 2011 Rich Smith	Another Defense Stock Bites the Dust The Wall Street Journal takes Oshkosh to the woodshed.
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The Motley Fool April 17, 2008 Rich Smith	MRAP Madness Let's take a look at Force Protection's new contract to see if the company is properly priced right now.
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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.
The Motley Fool June 12, 2007 Rich Smith	BULL-ish on Ceradyne? News last week that body armor specialist Ceradyne had developed an armored vehicle seemed to give the stock of already-down Force Protection just one more kick, sending it down as much as 8% in reaction in under 24 hours of trading.
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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 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.
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