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- Managing Defense Costs: The Marriage Between Insurers and Defense Counsel
- Aggressively representing a client and providing a cost-efficient defense don't have to be mutually exclusive for an insurance defense lawyer. The relationship between defense counsel and insurers is unique. It stems from what has become known as the tripartite relationship between the insured, defense counsel and the insurer. The insured...
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- Defense Spending Remains Local Spending
- The Federal Government's discretionary budget becomes a smaller every year. The majority of that is now defense spending. Most of the overall budget goes to Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and interest on the debt. That interest payment especially if rates start going up will soon increase dramatically...
- Blog posts 2009-08-19
- Is Defense Infrastructure Good Use Of Stimulus Funds
- If you go to Recovery.org and look at a number of recent contract awards with the "Stimulus" funds you will see many are for construction programs on military bases. There is a separate appropriation for this type of work called MilCon in the defense budget. Money for building...
- Blog posts 2009-08-17
- All Signs Indicate Pressure To Mount On Defense Budget
- New reports highlight the fact that the Obama Administration will have a hard time continuing heavy investment in procurement programs in future years defense budgets. The 2011 and out budgets have yet to be released even at the top line and there is concerns being raised that they will...
- Blog posts 2009-08-13
- Senate Blinks On The F-22
- The Senate voted on Tuesday to remove the funding for seven more F-22 fighters from the 2010 defense budget. This was in line with what the Obama Administration wanted. The F-22 had been added back in the bill by Committee during mark up. The House version contains...
- Blog posts 2009-07-22
- The U.S. Labor Force And The Defense Budget
- Over the last twenty years there has been a significant expansion of jobs related to the defense budget. Not only are there many manufacturing and highly technical maintenance and repair jobs linked to the U.S. defense spending on large procurement programs but there are also many high-paying technical jobs...
- Blog posts 2009-07-07
- Argument In The UK On Defense Spending Will Spread To The U.S.
- The British Labor Government is facing a major budget crisis that has been building for several years. The biggest casualty of it all will probably be their Armed Forces. The argument in that country may foreshadow the one to come in the United States. It is almost...
- Blog posts 2009-07-01
- How Much Defense Spending Is Enough?
- This is a debate that has gone on-and-on and around the mulberry bush ever since the end of World War II. How much should the United States spend on defense and what is it getting for the money that is spent? The "Far Left" cries out for as...
- Blog posts 2009-06-11
- Israel Bucks Trends And Raises Taxes And Defense Spending
- The new Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu has announced their first budget. Unlike most countries across the globe struggling with finances they propose to raise taxes, run a large deficit, and increase defense spending significantly. This is counter to the trends where defense spending is taking whacks across...
- Blog posts 2009-05-26
- Lack Of Basic Math Skills Hamper Discusson Of Government Spending
- Yesterday the Trustees of Social Security released their annual report on the state of the system. To sum up the situation it is not good at all. Due partly to the economic downturn in the U.S. economy inflows into the system have been much reduced. This has...
- Blog posts 2009-05-14
- All Politics Like Defense Spending is Local
- The Connecticut Post worries that the economic crisis and Obama administration may cut back on defense spending negatively affecting Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation. The helicopter maker is now one of Connecticut's major manufacturing industries and has seen robust production over the last several years. The U.S. Army has begun...
- Blog posts 2009-02-10
- Obama and Defense Spending
- If you read the newspapers and the web you will find all sorts of advice for the incoming Obama Administration on defense spending. Some as in this story in the Fort Worth Star Telegram are stressing continuing large procurement programs to keep people employed. Others as in this...
- Blog posts 2008-12-29
- Defense Budget Good to Massachusetts
- The Boston Globe reports that Massachusetts is one of the biggest winners of Federal dollars. Much of this is attributed to large weapons systems that Raytheon, General Dynamics and General Electric manufacture. The article illustrates how dependent the US economy is on the defense budget. Of interest,...
- Blog posts 2008-11-25
- The New Administration and the Defense Budget
- Either of the candidates currently running for office, John McCain or Barack Obama, will face challenges when it comes to Federal spending. The downturn in the economy as well as the various promises they have made will require more funding. If there is a heavily Democratic Congress that...
- Blog posts 2008-11-04
- L-3 Communications (LLL)
- Terrorism and defense companies: stormy lovers until kingdom come! L-3 Communications LLL
- Videos 2008-11-14
- Wallstrip: L-3 Communications (LLL)
- Terrorism and defense companies: stormy lovers until kingdom come! L-3 Communications LLL
- Videos 2008-11-14
- In Defense of Cramer -- Why We Need CNBC's Mad Money
- Why long-term investors really need irrational shows like Jim Cramer's Mad Money. by Allan Roth
- Blog posts 2009-06-11
Additional Resources
- DTN News: Lockheed Martin Establishes New Missile Defense Systems Operating Unit Based In Huntsville Led By John Holly
- DTN News: Lockheed Martin Establishes New Missile Defense Systems Operating Unit Based In Huntsville Led By John Holly*Source: DTN News / Lockheed MartinNSI News Source Info HUNTSVILLE, Ala., - August 26, 2009: Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) Space Systems Company has established a new Missile Defense Systems operating unit based in...
- News items 2009-08-28
- DTN News: Oshkosh Defense Brings History Of Collaboration With U.S. Army To FMTV Competitive Rebuy Bid
- DTN News: Oshkosh Defense Brings History Of Collaboration With U.S. Army To FMTV Competitive Rebuy Bid*Source: DTN News / Oshkosh CorporationNSI News Source Info OSHKOSH, Wis. - August 23, 2009: As a manufacturer and supplier of Department of Defense DoD tactical wheeled vehicles for more than four decades, Oshkosh Defense,...
- News items 2009-08-24
- British Industry Defends Defense Spending
- Painfully aware of the vulnerability of British defense expenditures and the risk that 2010's Strategic Defense Review will be driven by cost rather than capability, the U.K.'s Defense Industries Council DIC lobbying group is broadening its efforts to sustain government support for the sector, or at least limit the damage...
- News items 2009-09-02
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