Hard Times For Western Defense Companies

(Click on Image to Enlarge) Western Defense Companies Face Grim Future -- Zachary Keck, The Diplomat Global defense spending shrank last yea...

The U.S. Defense Industry Has Few Friends In Congress

Defense Industry Finds Few Old Friends On Hill -- Politico The defense industry is in the fight of its life, but many of its longtime champi...

Is The Defense Industry Ignoring The Looming Defense Budget Cuts?

Defense Biz Ignores Pending Cuts—A Case Of Denial? -- David Francis, The Fiscal Times Wall Street and the rest of the country woke up yester...

How The World's Biggest Defense Merger Was Quashed By Angela Merkel

How Angela Merkel Quashed A Mega-Merger -- Aviation Week On a sunny weekend in the south of Germany last August, the new chief of EADS, Tom ...

To Survive U.S. Defense Companies Are Diversifying And Finding New Markets

Defense Firms Seek Alternatives as U.S. Cuts Military Spending -- Wall Street Journal Dawne Hickton has seen the future—and it is old people...

U.S. Defense Budget Cuts Will Hammer Industry

2013 Outlook: Budget Cuts Will Hammer Industry -- Natinoal Defense The Defense Department and its contractors are still hopeful for an 11th ...

A Sign Of Things To Come

Boeing Announces Big Layoffs in Defense Division -- CNBC Boeing announced a major restructuring of its defense division on Wednesday that wi...

Bleak Times Predicted For The US Defense Industry

US Defense Biz Outlook Grim, Foreign Sales Won't Save It: Deloitte -- Aol Defense Even if Congress somehow averts sequestration, the def...

Europe's Mega Defense Merger Is Putting Pressure On The German Government

Graphic : World's largest defense companies Mega Defense Merger: EADS-BAE Plans Put Merkel Under Pressure -- Spiegel Online The planned ...

Is America's Tank Builder About To Shut Down?

M1 Abrams tanks sit on the assembly line at a plant in Lima, Ohio, the only place where the tanks are manufactured. Plant and local official...

Will A Future U.S. Army Have An Industrial Base?

A Bleak Forecast For the Army’s Industrial Base -- DoD Buzz As you’ve read here so many times, today’s official line from the Army is: We ge...

Congressman: Pentagon Shouldn’t Pay To Keep Industrial Base

Pentagon Shouldn’t Pay to Keep Industrial Base: Lawmaker -- Defense News In what could spell bad news for some parts of the defense industry...

BAE Systems Like Most Military Contractors Are Shifting their Expertise Overseas

BAE is targeting Brazil and the Gulf states for naval and aircraft business as well as Far East countries. BAE Systems May Shift Expertise O...

America's Defense Industry Has A "Surge" Weakness

Photo : F-22 Raptor Final Assembly Line ( Lockheed Martin ) America’s Hidden Industrial ‘Surge’ Weakness -- DoD Buzz Wednesday’s brief by tw...

Push-Back From The US Defense industry On Further Defense Budget Cutbacks

Defense Contractors Launch Campaign To End Military Spending Cuts -- L.A. Times Seeking to whip up public support for what’s expected to be ...

The Defense Industry's Golden Decade Is Coming To An End

Lockheed Martin debuted the F-35 fighter in 2006. Spending on the jet is in danger of being cut back. USAF/Reuters file For Defense Industry...

America's Warplane Industry In Decline

F-22 Raptors flying near a U.S. air base in Arizona. United States Air Force, via Bloomberg News Boom Times In Warplane Industry Fade Into H...

The Defense Industry And How It Influences Washington

The Influence Of The Defense Industry -- DoD Buzz The Sunlight Foundation put up a fascinating blog post this week matching DoD’s top 10 con...

Why No Enthusiastic Advocacy For The British Defense Industry?

A pair of Tornados prepare to take off from RAF Lossiemouth Photo: Reuters Who Will Defend The Defence Industry? -- Con Coughlin, The Telegr...

Analysts Are Forecasting A Period Of Prolonged Pain ForThe Defense Industry

From DoD Buzz: Uber-connected defense analyst Loren Thompson gave his outlook for the defense industry to a group of Raytheon executives the...