New Year, New Administration: How Will U.S. Defense and Security Markets React?
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Jan. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- The Aerospace & Defense practice at Frost & Sullivan, the Growth Partnership Company, is pleased to announce its 2009 Quarterly Analyst Briefing Presentation on the North American defense and security markets to be held on Thursday, January 15, 2009 at 10:00 a.m....

LETTERS IN THE EDITOR'S MAILBAG.
Byline: The Register-Guard Sudden pain relief Funny, when I woke up Wednesday morning that pain in the neck that I've had for the past eight years had gone. Go figure. Ken Molly Eugene Heed Coolidge's words on...

Fear of a Unified Government.
Veronique de Rugy tells us that Ronald Reagan shows up as one of the big presidential spenders ("Fear of a Unified Government," November). She makes no distinction between budgets submitted by the president to Congress and budgets created and passed by Congress. The budgets submitted by Reagan were consistently...

US diplomacy will take a front seat.
PRESIDENT-ELECT Obama, who will take office on January 20th, has done more advance preparation than any newly elected president in memory. Instead of waiting until he actually takes office, Obama has already named his Cabinet appointments and security team and announced that his immediate agenda will be a massive...

Aerospace & Defense News - Defense North America.
Dec 14, 2008 Noting that defense spending fell by more than 30% after both the Vietnam War and the Cold War, Rep. John Murtha, D-Pa., said Wednesday that Pentagon budgets "will come under increased pressure in the coming years." Murtha, who chairs a key subcommittee on defense...

Aerospace & Defense News - Defense North America.
Oct 13, 2008 Pentagon's 2010 budget to be squeezed by financial bailouts Lawmakers in search of cash to bail out the financial industry could look for deep cuts in defense budgets, industry leaders fear. "No one really yet knows when or to what extent defense spending could...

Aerospace & Defense News - Defense North America.
Nov 24, 2008 President George W. Bush and Defense Secretary Robert Gates are advising the incoming Obama administration to increase defense spending for at least five years, according to Pentagon acquisitions chief John Young, who refused to give a dollar amount. Young said the recommendations were "a...

Aerospace & Defense News - Defense North America.
Business & Industry News: Aerospace & Defense News - Defense North America Nov 3, 2008 US Coast Guard has resumed a process to buy a ship-based unmanned aircraft system for the first time since the cancellation of the Bell TR918 Eagle Eye tiltrotor. A newly...

Aerospace & Defense News - Defense North America.
Nov 10, 2008 11/4/2008 Budget shift from defense to social programs looks slow, uncertain. Despite President-elect Barack Obama's promise to reform the federal contracting process and cut overall contracting levels by at least 10%, experts say major shifts from defense to social programs are probably at least...

Company Watch - Northrop Grumman.
Dec 21, 2008 Northrop Grumman yesterday "unveiled" the first of two X-47Bs being produced for the US Navy's unmanned combat air system-demonstration (UCAS-D) programme. The ceremonial event marked the completion of aircraft assembly about 15 months after the Northrop won the UCAS-D contract A formal roll-out ceremony...