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...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....
...For naval shipbuilding, each procurement budget can be spent over as long as five years....
...Some similar fragmentation has already taken place during this defence slowdown: Northrop Grumman spun out its shipbuilding operations in March last year, for example, while SAIC, a provider of sophisticated...
...In 2011, it spun off its shipbuilding division as Huntington Ingalls Industries and the company said it had also cut back on volumes in its underperforming and non-core units....
...Indeed, Northrop Grumman spinning off its shipbuilding business last March has been cited as one example of that future trend. In the past 12 years “the rising tide lifted all boats”, Mr Dowdy said....
...In 2009 Northrop Grumman sold its consulting unit to two private equity companies for about $1.7bn in cash and earlier this year it spun off its shipbuilding business to shareholders as Huntington Ingalls...
...Northrop completed the spin-off of its shipbuilding unit Huntington Ingalls Industries in the quarter, which helped earnings due to the $1.4bn received by Northrop as a result of the move....
...Northrop Grumman, the US defence contractor, moved a step closer on Tuesday to spinning off its shipbuilding unit after the board approved the transaction and set a deadline of the end of the month to complete...
...Last year, Northrop Grumman announced that it would sell or spin off its shipbuilding business while other companies have looked to acquisitions to bulk up faster growing areas of the budget such cybersecurity...
...Sales slipped 3 per cent to $8.6bn and Northrop said revenues would be flat in 2011, excluding shipbuilding....
...Since then, the company has said it will sell or spin off its shipbuilding division....
...“The consolidation will reduce future costs, increase efficiency, and address shipbuilding overcapacity,” said Wes Bush, Northrop chief executive....
...“The company will focus on profitability, and operations like shipbuilding that can’t do their part could be gone.”...
...Still, the slow-down in the DD(X) programme, coupled with damage to the company’s shipyards in the Gulf Coast town of Pascagoula, Mississippi, saw Northrop’s shipbuilding revenues slip from more than $1.7bn...
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