Defense analysts have speculated in the past that the Sentinel, built by Lockheed Martin Corp.
Some defense analysts had expected Mr. Obama to announce the number of forces the U.S. intends to keep in Afghanistan after 2014, when the current mission ends.
They were simply trying to create a system by which large expensive mainframes used by defense analysts in the government and large research universities could communicate with each other.
As NPR's Vicky O'Hara reports, military intelligence and defense analysts say the dip in violence tells us something: that the insurgency is getting more organized and that it has a political agenda.
Retired commanders and defense analysts generally laud Petraeus as a leader and strategist, but they warn that he'll have far bigger and more complex responsibilities in the new job, which he takes over on Sept. 16.
Bipartisan congressional supporters, civilian defense analysts and, of course, the U.S. Marine Corps deserve no small measure of credit for keeping the program alive during its periodic developmental difficulties and despite successive efforts to slow down or terminate the program outright.
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With institutional investors and hedge funds breathing a little easier about the outlook for the defense business, analysts can return to their customary practice of comparing the performance of key players rather than worrying about whether the whole sector is in trouble.
Its key franchises are concentrated in the overcrowded electronics segment of the defense market, where analysts expect softening demand to drive consolidation in the years ahead.
That's particularly true when it comes to the defense business and the research analysts who track it.
Given the size of the military-industrial complex, there's no shortage of analysts focused on aerospace and defense companies.
Many analysts were predicting that the Bush defense buildup would end when the administration did, so the announcement that year that a defense-industry icon was also departing after a dozen years of running General Dynamics was viewed as a negative for sector shares.
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For example, when defense lawyers try to portray some of these conference calls with analysts as innocent, Koenig will speak up and say why he thinks these calls were, in fact, so misleading that they were criminal.
According to analysts, the Finmeccanica bribery episode may lead to stringent scrutiny of defense contracts in India, delaying orders.
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U.S. military analysts figured out during the early days of the Cold War that no effective defense against a large-scale nuclear attack was likely to be feasible.
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Analysts who took the negative news coverage at face value and predicted weakening results for the defense sector last year turned out to be dead wrong.
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Many analysts believe that a combination of big budget deficits and receding overseas commitments will result in steadily declining defense outlays during the coming decade, spelling hard times for military contractors.
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