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...Gjovik pointed to a potential conflict of interest regarding Apple board member Ronald Sugar, chair of the audit committee, as he was previously chief executive of Northrop Grumman, the defence company responsible...
...This has shrunk to five highly diversified companies: Lockheed, Raytheon Technologies, Boeing, General Dynamics and Northrop Grumman....
...Leaders at Lockheed, Raytheon, Boeing, Northrop Grumman and General Dynamics all spoke of the difficulty of securing parts and labour during recent earnings calls....
...The “Big Five” consists of Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop Grumman and General Dynamics, which have a combined market capitalisation of $470bn....
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...Uber has named Ronald Sugar, former Northrop Grumman chief executive, as independent chairman of the board, the latest move to overhaul its corporate governance ahead of a planned 2019 initial public offering...
...This month’s proposed merger between L3 and Harris Corp creates a genuine challenger to the big five: Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics and Raytheon....
...Ms Nooyi’s departure from PepsiCo in October will reduce from 24 to 23 the women heading Fortune 500 companies, though Kathy Warden is due to become CEO of Northrop Grumman in January....
...“The technological capacity of our potential adversaries continues to advance,” according to Wesley Bush, the chief executive of Northrop Grumman....
...US defence contractor Northrop Grumman on Monday said it plans to buy Orbital ATK in a $9.2bn deal, marking the latest sign of consolidation in the industrial sector....
...He finalised a big investment led by SoftBank, undertook sweeping governance changes on the once-fractious board, and recruited a seasoned executive, Ron Sugar of Northrop Grumman, as independent chairman...
...Defence group Northrop Grumman has agreed to buy rival Orbital ATK for $9.2bn, giving further impetus to the ongoing wave of consolidation in the aerospace industry....
...Payments company Visa and defence group Northrop Grumman both advanced after their results topped expectations....
...This month a multibillion-dollar spy satellite built by Northrop Grumman, which was launched by SpaceX, failed to reach orbit and was assumed to have been lost....
...BAE Systems shares slipped 0.1 per cent to $30.36, Northrop Grumman declined 2.7 per cent to $232.07 and Raytheon fell 1.7 per cent to $143.81....
...Like, why exclude Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Smith & Wesson, but invest in General Dynamics?...
...Executives from BAE Systems, Rolls-Royce, Northrop Grumman and General Electric were grilled by the defence select committee about the failures that have caused the UK’s newest and most advanced destroyers...
...Two big M&A transactions were torpedoed under Bill Clinton: the $12bn takeover of military supplier Northrop Grumman by its larger rival Lockheed Martin, and MCI WorldCom’s $125bn bid for Sprint, the mobile...
...Northrop Grumman, the maker of the Global Hawk drone surveillance aircraft, climbed 4.4 per cent to $186.69....
...The hearing in Washington was told that Scaled Composites, the arm of Northrop Grumman that designed the craft, had not considered the possibility that human error could lead to an early unlocking of the...
...Northrop Grumman, a significant military contractor, bought Scaled Composites in 2007....
...The Pentagon has fought for years to get the F-35’s costs under control, and it last week pushed Lockheed, Northrop Grumman and BAE Systems into investing $170m in cost-reduction initiatives....
...Some further clarity may emerge this week when five big military contractors – Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics and Raytheon – all report second-quarter figures....
...Northrop Grumman says that it has employees in each of the 53 California congressional districts....
...Northrop Grumman is the Pentagon’s third-biggest supplier by sales, after Lockheed Martin and Boeing....
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