Most of their awards go to the big guns doing defense contracts and the like.
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It's worked out so well that today only 20% of Rockwell's defense contracts are cost-plus deals.
According to analysts, the Finmeccanica bribery episode may lead to stringent scrutiny of defense contracts in India, delaying orders.
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AeroVironment has entered four bidding contests for small unmanned air-vehicle defense contracts since 2003 and has won all four.
Collage is now in use at the National Association of Securities Dealers, the U.S. Joint Forces Command and the U.S. Defense Contracts Management Agency.
One reason is that that bio-defense contracts come in clumps and don't provide a steady stream of revenue, as do traditional drugs.
"There has to be a balance in these things, " says Dan Chenok, senior vice president of the government contractor Pragmatics, which draws a portion of its revenue from defense contracts.
U.S. companies are routinely excluded from European defense contracts.
On the other hand, the company enjoyed a strong name among ceramics makers, as well as having some lucrative defense contracts to get started on--and, shortly after the buyout, a robust stock market.
The increased expenditures were rejected by outgoing Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin, a budget hawk who saw no need for upgrades to existing air and land weaponry, or extra spending in the form of new defense contracts.
Lockheed competes with Boeing and Northrop Grumman (NOC) on defense department contracts, among others.
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Make no mistake, this order is not limited to big corporations getting multi-billion dollar contracts from the defense department or other government agencies.
That, in turn, helped him to bid for fixed-price government contracts, which most defense contractors are loath to do, fearing that cost overruns will eat up their profits.
"Right now, if you pulled the contractor force out, you don't have enough troops to fill the gaps, " says Peter Singer, a defense analyst and expert on military contracts at Brookings.
The company also has contracts with the Department of Defense, NATO, the Department of Homeland Security and other federal agencies.
We also do research, trying to find new ways to track down hackers for organisations like the Department of Defense which we have a few research contracts through which will again assist in future investigations.
All of them are contracts for what are solely air defense systems.
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Most of Wednesday's session was a dry review of Jackson and Murray's contracts as AEG Live's defense team worked to convince jurors that Murray was not hired by the concert promoter.
Consulting firm Challenger, Gray and Christmas said Thursday that the sequester hadn't yet led to significant government job cuts, though industries that rely on government contracts, such as aerospace and defense, have begun layoffs and self-imposed cost-cutting related to the federal squeeze.
U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) officials have stated that government contracts are not jobs programs.
The largest provider of defense IT services, SAIC boasts of 9, 000 contracts, the bulk long-term with no one greater than 4% of net revenues.
Over 40% of URS' revenues come from the federal government, providing the company with stable cash flows and lengthy contracts (average contract length of seven to eight years for the Department of Defense and 10 years for the Department of Energy).
Moreover, since most bio-defense projects are still in the research stages, it is not clear which ones will lead to big procurement contracts.
Defense and public safety agencies are eager to deploy wireless networks to exploit these capabilities and, as a result, contracts are flowing like water.
The 863 Program took much of its shape from the American research system used by the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Defense: the government appointed panels of experts, who drew up research priorities, called for bids, and awarded contracts.
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