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US May Send Drone Chopper to Help Japan With Crippled Nuke Plant

Cleanup work at Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant presents a radiation risk to many workers, even helicopter pilots flying over the complex. One partial solution could be an unmanned aircraft capable of carrying 6,000 pounds of cargo -- in this case, water -- to help tame the crippled facility. "The U.S. Navy is...

US Imposes Sanctions on Libya; What It Means for Arms Sales

The White House today announced a series of sanctions against Libya in a move designed to step up pressure on the country's leader, Moammar Gadhafi. President Barack Obama's press secretary, Jay Carney, announced the sanctions at a briefing this afternoon. He did not detail what they would include. But among other...

Stardust Melody: Spaceship Has Date With Comet on Valentine's Day

On Valentine's Day late tonight, a stalwart spaceship will burn the dregs of its fuel to rendezvous with a beautiful comet -- the spaceship's final feat before it goes to sleep forever. Like all tales of chivalry, this one has an element of suspense. Scientists worry that by sheer bad luck, the NASA spaceship Stardust...

New Book: 'Military Industrial Complex' Is Bigger Than Ever

The nation's largest government contractor gobbles up some $260 from each and every taxpaying household, according to a new book that chronicles the history of Lockheed Martin. In "Prophets of War," longtime arms industry observer William D. Hartung calls this "the Lockheed Martin tax" -- a way of driving home just how...

The Pentagon's 5 Fantastic Flying Machines

(Oct. 1) -- So you think you can fly? The Pentagon's research and development arm announced this week that it had selected a company to design an airborne Humvee. AAI Corp., which has a concept for a combined gyrocoptor-jeep, is getting about $3 million from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to work on this...

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Pentagon Spending and the War on Children

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The F-22: Final Delivery for a Flying Disaster

Wednesday Lockheed Martin delivered the last of 187 F-22 Raptor fighter jets to the U.S. Air Force at a ceremony at the company's plant in Marietta, Georgia.

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05/29/12 Lockheed Martin powers on GPS III navigation payload... Source: Military & Aerospace Electronics The Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] team developing the Global Positioning System (GPS) III satellites has powered on the program's satellite pathfinder, the GPS III Non-Flight Satellite Testbed (GNST), with elements of its navigation payload onboard.
05/29/12 Marshall Wins Â£350M to Support RAF Hercules Source: defense-aerospace.com A new Â£350m MOD contract to maintain the Royal Air Force's Hercules aircraft will support 500 UK jobs.
05/29/12 4 High Yield Companies To Consider And 3 To Avoid Source: Seeking Alpha 2012 has been quite volatile for the broad stock market and the European situation is further threatening equity investments.
05/28/12 Analysis & Valuation: United Technology, Lockheed,... Source: Seeking Alpha Right now, I am bullish on U.S. fixed-income securities, U.S. equities, crude oil, and gold, although equities could be in the process of going into an intermediate-term decline as part of an overall major decline.
05/25/12 F-22 Oxygen Issues Raise Questions About F-35 Source: defense-aerospace.com Lockheed Martin remains mum about whether an oxygen system flaw on its F-22 fighter might also plague its sibling, the F-35, but defense analysts say there are reasons to worry.