Has number-four-ranked Pentagon supplier General Dynamics been hurt by its Gulfstream bizjet unit?

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We believe LED capital investments will return to solid growth in late 2013-2014, as general lighting applications grow, and VECO should remain a leading supplier of LED process equipment.

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Well, the federal bailouts of General Motors and Chrysler saved those two companies as well as the supplier base.

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United Technologies, the number-seven ranked Pentagon supplier in 1991, was in much the same position as fellow Connecticut-based conglomerate General Electric.

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