With regard to the management culture, the Navy Department is by far the best run of the military departments, and it typically enjoys stronger support from the political system than the Air Force or the Army.
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What makes Textron interesting in the current environment is that it has managed to maintain its role as a supplier of unique military equipment to all three military departments while having a major presence in commercial markets such as automotive, recreation and business jets.
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"We expect that they will eventually serve both police departments, military forces and civilians all over the world, and that the recurring income from sales of 'ammunition' will make this a very profitable company, " says Lutts.
The company will record unspecified charges for the job cuts that will take place its networks sector, which makes communications products for cellular infrastructure, police, fire departments and the military, and broadband.
Sixteen members of my Cabinet have committed their departments and agencies to making military families one of their highest priorities.
It withdraws all federal funds from a university if even one of the university's schools or departments denies equal access to military recruiters.
These are the machines that utility companies buy for their field service personnel, that police departments buy for cops and that the military buys for soldiers in dangerous places around the world.
At a time when budget zealots are attacking everything from Medicare to corporate welfare to whole Cabinet departments, the U.S. military has presented Congress with a plan to spend as much on new warplanes over the next decade as it did during the huge defense buildup of the 1980s.
A.A. will present a regulatory regimen enabling law-enforcement departments to fly small drones, and the military contractors will suddenly have some eighteen thousand potential new customers.
The people -- some in jeans, some in skirts, some in uniforms with military stripes -- are fielding phones calls to their respective departments.
Last week, White House budget director Jacob Lew issued spending guidance to federal departments and agencies that could be bad news for military contractors.
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They hold not only positions traditionally linked to the military -- like the defense secretary -- but also run departments such as public works, transportation and local government.
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