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LEMV Airship Sold Back to Manufacturer for a Song, and Future Data

LEMV Airship Sold Back to Manufacturer for a Song, and Future Data

by | Oct 24, 2013 | Blimps & LTA Craft, C4ISR, Contracts - Awards, Industry & Trends, Northrop-Grumman, Other Corporation, Partnerships & Consortia, R&D - Contracted, T&C - SAIC, Textron, USA, Warfare - Lessons, Warfare - Trends

LEMV concept(click to view full) The rise of modern terrorism, sharply increasing costs to recruit and equip professional soldiers, and issues of energy security, are forcing 2 imperatives on modern armies. Modern militaries need to be able to watch wide areas for...
LEMV Airship Sold Back to Manufacturer for a Song, and Future Data

Prime Contractors Massage Their Earnings But Face Revenue Pressure

by | Oct 24, 2013 | Asia - Other, Budgets, Corporate Financials, Daily Rapid Fire, General Dynamics, Germany, India, Issues - International, IT - Cyber-Security, IT - General, Pre-RFP, Raytheon, Scandals & Investigations, South Korea, UAVs, USA

Primes Under Booking Pressure * General Dynamics’ Q3 revenue was down by 1.7% to $7.8B. Information systems sales break from the trend with a 4.4% increase, but even combined with healthy aerospace gains, they can’t quite compensate for Combat Systems...