The first announcement came from the Adi Shankar company 1984 Private Defense Contractors.
C. takes the top slot largely because local government and private defense companies there have been less likely to hold layoffs.
Garner retired from the Army in 1997 as a three-star general and entered the private sector defense field.
White is incredibly accomplished as both a private practice defense lawyer and a prosecutor during her tenure as US Attorney for the Southern District of New York.
That's the plan behind the Power Line Urban Sentry (PLUS) project currently being run by the Air Force Research Laboratory and private firm Defense Research Associates, and it's already yielded UAVs that can land on power lines and charge in three hours.
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In such circumstances, it was impossible for a large private-sector defense industry to exist, so most military production between wars was conducted in government shipyards and depots.
Last month, CNN legal analyst Kimberly Guilfoyle Newsom heard what the defense represented as the family praising Jackson on an audiotape recorded by a defense private investigator, also in February.
Richard Farley, a law partner who partly makes his living structuring private equity deals, found an excellent venue for his defense of the private equity industry.
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The president wants to double U.S. exports by 2015, and his administration is working with the private sector (notably defense contractors) to rewrite decades-old export control rules.
Akiyama, who is funded by Japanese politicians and U.S. and Japanese defense contractors, also arranges private meetings between them, the Japanese trading companies that broker U.S. weapons and defense officials.
She got her legal degree at the University of Florida and began her legal career at a private firm specializing in insurance defense.
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The county is dotted with military bases and intelligence sites such as CIA headquarters, and most of its biggest private-sector employers are defense contractors like General Dynamics, Northrop Grumman and Science Applications International.
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Military jobs are on the block, but the bulk of the pink slips will come from private businesses from giant defense companies on down to smaller businesses that are the economic mainstays of their communities.
There is a bull market underway in companies providing national defense, homeland security and private security protection.
The Department of Defense currently spends more on private contractors than on all of its civilian and military personnel combined, and many of them perform redundant tasks that could be done more cheaply by government employees.
Bad enough that Panetta says the Department of Defense needs the ability to protect private-sector computers from cyberthreats.
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Hagel also recalled family war history during a private meeting Saturday with Philippines Secretary of National Defense Voltaire Gazmin.
Other groups have stepped in to defend the laws banning gay marriage the Republican-controlled U.S. House of Representatives for the Defense of Marriage Act and the private citizens who officially sponsored Proposition 8.
Since defense workers in both the public and private sectors usually make more money than people employed in the construction trades, their spending probably has a stronger impact on the rest of the economy.
My entire career in politics, in elected office, in Congress, in the Defense Department, eight years in the private sector and now as vice president has all taken place after the onset of coronary artery disease.
The significance of these buyers stepping up is that, like activist investors, players at private-equity firms typically hail from outside the defense sector and are looking for relatively fast returns compared with executives who have made their careers in military contracting.
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He went on to name a well-worn list of difficulties in controlling online conflict: Attribution is difficult or impossible, deterrence is far less effective, the private sector has a far more active role in defense, non-state actors have more potential for destruction, and the measurable potential for damage is far from clear.
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But most of the students in the course come from Israel's Defense Ministry and the military rather than from private companies.
But the advent of democracy in 1994 prompted the liberation of the defense industry which opened it up to several private contractors.
In addition to a growing defense budget and a trend toward outsourcing to private contractors, SAIC has benefited from deep ties to the intelligence and national-security community.
Given the assessments by sober defense analysts and according to other, private, reports from Capitol Hill there is no reason to think that Boehner is bluffing about having the support he needs to take the Sequester or barter it for even better cuts.
The President made clear that beyond the immediate lifesaving and life sustaining activities, which remain the primary focus, he wanted his team to continue to focus on what they can do to support state, local, and private sector efforts to restore power and asked the Department of Defense and the Department of Energy to continue to work in support of FEMA towards this goal.
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Private citizens use them for "hunting, recreation, competition and home defense and security, " the website says.
Valle's attorney, Julia Gatto, opened her defense by arguing that the officer was being prosecuted purely for private speech.
Under Secretary of Defense Douglas Feith's announcement Wednesday that he would return to private life brings to a close four distinguished, but grueling, years at the forefront of the War on Terror.
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