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Expensive F-35 Fighter At Risk Of Budget 'Death Spiral'
It's called the "death spiral," and America's newest warplane, the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, is in danger of falling into it before the plane has even gone into service. The term - recently invoked by top brass involved in the F-35 program - refers...
Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, Boeing Co., Manufacturing and Engineering, Budgets and Budgeting, Military Equipment
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Corporate welfare for Lockheed Martin
At this time of severe cutbacks in government funding for food stamps, early childhood education and Meals on Wheels, some Maryland legislators are hard at work looking out for the welfare of one of the world's wealthiest corporations. Under a bill...
Tags: Unemployment Benefits, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Women, Infants and Children, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Head Start
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Pratt & Whitney Says Drive To Lower F-35 Costs 'Burned In Our Brain'
The head of Pratt & Whitney's military engine business said on Wednesday that driving down the cost of the F-35 fighter jet was "burned on our brains," but said cuts sparked by U.S. budget woes could slow the effort. Bennett Croswell, president of Pratt...
Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, Budgets and Budgeting, United Technologies Corporation, Military Aircraft, White House
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Pentagon Says To Resume F-35 Flights
The Pentagon said on Thursday it would resume flights of its F-35 fighter jets following a week-long precautionary grounding imposed after a crack was found on an engine blade on a test plane in California. "F-35 flight operations have been cleared to...Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, United Technologies Corporation, Military Aircraft, Air Transportation Industry
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Little action to stop defense cuts, despite warnings
Defense officials and their allies in Congress have done their best to create a sense of crisis about impending budget cuts, but their warnings have failed to produce any visible result. Instead, partisan divisions have hardened over how to avoid the...Tags: Leon Panetta, Boeing Co., U.S. Congress, Georgetown, Jay Carney
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Northrop Grumman pins Navy contract strategy on Linthicum facility
The specter of federal budget reductions has meant hundreds of jobs lost at Northrop Grumman Corp. in Maryland, but as the defense contractor vies to build a key Navy radar system, that same cost-cutting pressure could boost the importance of Northrop's...
Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, Electronics, Unemployment, Manufacturing and Engineering, Budgets and Budgeting
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New Camaros tear down runway to help U-2 spy planes land
The Air Force is in the midst of swapping out the fleet of high-speed sport cars that chase down its sinister-looking black spy planes at breakneck speeds. For more than 50 years, the chase cars have been critical to the high-flying U-2’s mission....
Tags: U.S. Department of Defense, G8, Chevrolet, Armed Forces, Pontiac
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Shuttle Endeavour's final journey is carefully choreographed
A diva requires special handling and an entourage. Whatever the stage, the space shuttle Endeavour gets both. A constellation of engineers and assembly line workers designed and built the shuttle in Southern California. A universe of scientists hurled it...
Tags: Manufacturing and Engineering, Rockwell Automation Inc., Kennedy Space Center, Arts and Culture, Arts
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Water probe involves Disney
Federal and state regulators are investigating whether a vintage air conditioning system at Walt Disney Studios in Burbank played a role in contaminating groundwater with chromium 6, a cancer-causing heavy metal widely used in aerospace manufacturing...
Tags: Medical Research, Health Organizations, Walt Disney, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Metal
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Air Force Awards Contract for F-22 Oxygen System
The Air Force has awarded a contract worth about $19 million to Lockheed Martin Corp. to install a backup oxygen system in the F-22 Raptor. The stealth fighter has had problems with pilots experiencing dizziness and blackouts from a lack of oxygen. The...
Tags: Leon Panetta
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Consolidation wave poised to hit state's health care services, biopharma sectors
Like a one-two punch, two major Maryland employers in the health care service and pharmaceutical industries were the targets last week of multibillion-dollar acquisition deals. Both homegrown companies — Human Genome Sciences Inc. and Catalyst...Tags: Montgomery (Kane, Illinois), GlaxoSmithKline PLC, Cigna Corporation, Biotechnology, Express Scripts Incorporated
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