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National Defense August 2004 Roxana Tiron	International Trade Benefits U.S., Says Pentagon Acquisition Chief The U.S. Congress must be better educated on the benefits of international trade, according to the Pentagon's top procurement official.
National Defense September 2007 Breanne Wagner	U.S. - U.K. Defense Technology Pact Likely to Draw Fire A defense export treaty signed in late June by the United States and the United Kingdom has sparked debate about the merits and the risks of sharing military technology with close allies.
National Defense August 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	Pentagon's New Jet Fighter Epitomizes Budget Dilemmas Among the Pentagon's largest weapons procurements, and one that is sure to be closely watched is the Joint Strike Fighter.
IndustryWeek September 1, 2003 David Drickhamer	Department Of Defense Goes Global Congressional debate over defense-spending requirements mirrors U.S. consumers' growing ambivalence over where products are made.
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2005 Ben Ames	Selling electronics overseas doesn't have to be difficult Military electronics manufacturers can gain faster access to the international market if they follow simple steps to improve their trade applications.
National Defense July 2004 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Global Industry Key to Defense Preparedness Despite calls for trade barriers and more protectionism in the arms industry, the overwhelming reality is that defense is more globalized than ever.
National Defense May 2010 Sandra I. Erwin	Without Radical Change, Many More Defense Programs Will End Up Like JSF The breathless hype over the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter's soaring costs and schedule slips clouds a much bigger acquisition predicament for the Pentagon: How to stop more programs from ending up like JSF.
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2006 Courtney E. Howard	Top official offers advice on exporting military equipment legally and safely "Exporting is not a right; it is a privilege and for some it has been lost," says Ganzer, director of the Office of Defense Trade Controls Policy at the U.S. Department State.
The Motley Fool March 16, 2006 Brian Gorman	Joint Strike Fighting Major international buyers threaten to bail out of Lockheed Martin's Joint Strike Fighter project. So far, Lockheed Martin hasn't taken a conciliatory attitude.
The Motley Fool April 19, 2004 Brian Gorman	Lockheed Martin's Norway Problem It's Norway or the highway for Lockheed Martin's Joint Strike Fighter program.
National Defense August 2004 Roxana Tiron	European Defense Agency Raising Hackles in U.S. The creation of the European Defense Agency is sending ripples across the Atlantic and raising questions about Europe diverting resources away from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
National Defense September 2011 Sandra I. Erwin	As Pressure Grows to Cut Spending, the True Cost of Weapons Is Anyone's Guess A decade of soaring Pentagon spending is coming to an end, and it is leaving behind considerable fiscal wreckage.
National Defense February 2010 Stew Magnuson	Job Creation Argument May Prompt Congress to Move on Arms Export Reform With elections approaching and a worsening unemployment outlook, observers are wondering if 2010 will be the year when Congress begins reforming the regulations that control the export of military technology and data overseas.
National Defense June 2008 Sandra I. Erwin	Aviation Wish-Lists Send Mixed Signals The Navy and Air Force want more planes from Boeing and Lockheed Martin, but doing so would decrease funds from the Joint Strike Fighter program.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2005	Lockheed Martin uses software to manage risk on F-35 project Seeking a software tool to manage business risks for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics chose the Active Risk Manager, a Web-based enterprise risk management system, from U.K.-based Strategic Thought.
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2006 Annie Turner	What Europe Could Gain From a Better Relationship with U.S. Defense The European defense industry needs to establish a far better relationship with the U.S. market immediately, yet this is easier said than done.
The Motley Fool June 18, 2004 Brian Gorman	Lockheed's Weight Problem Lockheed Martin will delay takeoff on its Joint Strike Fighter program due to a nagging problem that may leave the defense contractor's investors jittery.
National Defense May 2015 Sandra I. Erwin	Procurement Issues That Congress Won't Fix The new foreign policy mantra in Washington is that the world is on fire. The nation's weapons procurement machine, meanwhile, keeps partying like it's 1999.
National Defense January 2010 Sandra I. Erwin	Acquisition Reform Act: The Backlash Has Begun It's only been seven months since President Obama signed the Weapon Systems Acquisition Reform Act of 2009. Predictably, a chorus of disapproval already is being heard.
National Defense February 2008 Alan L. Gropman	Challenges Ahead for U.S. Aircraft Manufacturers The Industrial College of the Armed Forces team has identified six major issues that, if unaddressed, could threaten the aircraft industry's long-term health.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2005 John Keller	The big defense cuts that didn't happen Many of the anticipated big cuts in the Pentagon's 2006 budget request have simply failed to materialize - yet. The U.S. Department of Defense budget request contains solid funding for electronics-rich programs such as the Air Force F/A-22 fighter-bomber, the Joint Strike Fighter, and the Army Future Combat System.
National Defense April 2013 Sandra I. Erwin	Pentagon, Contractors Clash Over Profits The pressure is on at the Pentagon to bring down the cost of military hardware. The dictum from acquisitions chief Frank Kendall is that "unaffordable" programs will be axed.
National Defense November 2006 Harold Kennedy	Military R&D could see decline in coming years Faced with a growing need to replenish war-ravaged equipment, Defense Department research and development spending is expected to level off and, then, gradually decrease through the balance of this decade.
National Defense March 2014 Sandra I. Erwin	In '15 Budget, Red Flags for Contractors If defense industry CEOs can draw any conclusion from the Pentagon's 2015 budget proposal it is that, except for the too-big-to-fail joint strike fighter, most of the military's modernization plan is on shaky ground.
National Defense June 2012 Sandra I. Erwin	For Defense Industry, Lure of Shiny Objects Rapidly Fading The erstwhile dependable moneymakers in the defense industry no longer look like safe bets. Big-ticket weapon systems are being delayed, terminated, investigated or mired in endless reviews.
National Defense January 2016 Thomas B. McVey	Executives: Be Wary of Export Regulations One of the important legal requirements facing defense contractors is compliance with International Traffic in Arms Regulations and export controls.
BusinessWeek May 15, 2006 Eamon Javers	Stealth Spending At The Pentagon How the Air Force is keeping the costs of expensive new fighter jets under the radar.
National Defense February 2008 Sandra I. Erwin	Preventive Care Prescribed for Pentagon Big-Ticket Programs Acquisition officials at the Pentagon must decide which programs get to live and which ones get put out of their misery.
National Defense June 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Export Rules Under Fire for Eroding U.S. Space Industry Restrictions on exports of U.S. space technology have spurred a global demand for products made outside the United States.
National Defense July 2014 Sandra I. Erwin	Hope and Despair in Government Procurement It's crunch time for acquisition reformers as they face a July deadline to submit recommendations to the House and Senate Armed Services Committees.
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2006 Courtney E. Howard	BAE Systems Gains F-35 JSF Production Contract to Deliver EWCS The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) and F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) program partner Lockheed Martin have awarded BAE Systems a contract to begin low-rate production of the JSF.
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2007 Courtney E. Howard	International Traffic in Arms Regulations Discussed in Depth at Military Technologies Conference Adherence to International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), although time-consuming, prevents costly mistakes that can lead to pricey fines and criminal prosecution.
National Defense June 2004 Brinley Salzmann	Government Policy Notes Significant modifications to the United Kingdom's export controls went into effect in June, almost a decade after a major public inquiry into the alleged sale of defense and dual-use technology by British firms to Iraq prior to the 1991 Gulf War.
National Defense January 2014 Sandra I. Erwin	DoD Clashes With Suppliers Over Data Rights The clash pits military buyers who want to break up suppliers' monopolies against companies whose livelihood depends on keeping tight control over their designs.
National Defense July 2011 Sandra I. Erwin	Procurement Blues: After a Decade Of Largesse, Not Much to Show for It After a decade of lavish spending, the Pentagon is now left with an aging fleet of weapon systems, an overstrained force, out-of-control personnel and healthcare costs, and no idea of how to prepare for tomorrow's wars.
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2009 John Keller	2010 DOD Budget Proposes Increases for Navy, DARPA Spending; Army Faces Big Cuts The U.S. Department of Defense is proposing modest increases in procurement and research for the U.S. Navy, yet the U.S. Air Force faces small reductions and the U.S. Army is facing cuts of more than 17 percent.
Fast Company April 2002 Bill Breen	High Stakes, Big Bets Tom Burbage and his 500-person team at Lockheed Martin went after the biggest military deal in U.S. history -- and scored a $200 billion victory: a contract to build the Joint Strike Fighter. They didn't play it safe; they played to win...
National Defense July 2008 Grace V. Jean	F-35 factory: One aircraft per day by 2016 Inside a manufacturing facility so large that workers routinely bike and ride golf carts down paths named after fighter jets, preparations are underway to begin mass production of the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter.
BusinessWeek February 24, 2011	Clipped Wings Defense contractors are trying to fend off liberal Democrats, conservative Republicans, and Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, all looking for savings in the Pentagon's budget. Here are the programs already on the chopping block.
National Defense November 2013 Sandra I. Erwin	Companies See Bright Spots in Bleak Market There are still companies that have the stomach to invest in defense. Some actually view these tough times as an opportunity to win new business.
National Defense January 2015 Jeffrey Richardson	Know When Software Falls Under Export Control Regime The International Traffic in Arms Regulations, or ITAR, control the export of software classified as a "defense article." Defense articles include items like complex military cryptographic software and rudimentary diagnostic software designed to assist in the repair of other defense articles.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2006 John Keller	DOD Budget Keeps Growing, Despite the Odds Top-ranking experts in government and industry have been warning of substantial impending cuts in defense spending for the past 18 months, yet when Pentagon leaders released their 2007 spending proposals, the numbers just kept on growing.
Scientific American March 13, 2006 Daniel G. Dupont	Software Insecurity A good deal of code for some of the military's most sophisticated weapons -- fighter aircraft and missile defense systems, for example -- is written in other countries, creating an obvious risk to national security.
InternetNews January 12, 2010	Microsoft Greenlights Software Rental Program For partners willing to wade through a complex licensing agreement, Microsoft now offers a third-party rental program.
National Defense May 2008 Sandra I. Erwin	Weapons Budget: The More You Spend, The Less You Buy A hyperinflation tsunami now threatens to sink the Defense Department's purchasing power so dramatically that a weapons budget that currently funds 95 programs will pay for just a handful of big-ticket programs
National Defense September 2015 Sandra I. Erwin	Management Shakeup Looms at Defense When a new secretary of defense takes the helm at the Pentagon at the outset of the next administration, he or she will have to deal with a potentially chaotic staff reorganization that Congress signed into law.
National Defense February 2011 Sandra I. Erwin	For High-Tech Firms, Allure of Defense Contracts Is Tarnished by Red Tape Even in today's struggling economy, the prospect of scoring a big defense contract is not enough for many companies to want to do business with the Defense Department.
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2006	F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Gains Qualtech Systems Diagnostics Pratt & Whitney has contracted Qualtech Systems Inc. to provide on-board engine diagnostics for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter (JSF), a new aircraft being developed for the U.S. Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, and international air forces.
National Defense September 2006 Sandra I. Erwin	Reform Agenda Targets Acquisition Workforce The Pentagon's cadre of "professional shoppers" could see a wave of reforms in the coming years, as the Defense Department remains under unrelenting pressure to fix its buying practices.
National Defense May 2013 Sandra I. Erwin	Firms Think Twice Before Investing in DoD The Pentagon needs to get creative as it plans the weapons of the future, officials have said, and it needs private-sector help.