Deficits In U.K. and U.S. Growing

September 17, 2009 by Matthew Potter · Comment
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Both the U.S. and the U.K. are facing massive deficit projections in the out years. It will take discipline and cuts to fix this problem. These...

Unitech to be Purchased by Lockheed

Lockheed Martin has agreed to buy Unitech sometime this year.  Unitech is a smallish simulation producing company located in the Orlando area.  The Orlando Sentinel reports that a deal to buy the company was worked out recently. Unitech complements the work that Lockheed has done in the simulation area in Orlando for years. The company has earnings of around $140 million, and it is common in these types of deals for private companies to pay about one year’s earnings for it. Many smaller defense contractors grow from one or two contracts to a size of between one to two hundred million and are then bought by another company. Larger companies buy them to gain work or expertise in a discipline or area that they might not have.

IDGA Announces 2010 NCW Awards™ Call for Nominations

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The Institute for Defense and Government Advancement (IDGA) requests nominations for the 2010 NCW Awards™. The deadline for nominations is Tuesday, December 8, 2009. Award winners will be announced during IDGA’s NCW 2010 Conference on January 26, 2010 in Arlington, VA. IDGA's NCW Awards™ are the most prestigious awards in the net-centric operations discipline. They honor, recognize, and promote initiatives in the US Department of Defense, Coalition Go

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