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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....
...We completed the shipbuilding spin-off and our newly aligned portfolio generated solid financial results,” said Wes Bush, chief executive officer and president....
...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 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...
...to spin off its shipbuilding business....
...Since then, the company has said it will sell or spin off its shipbuilding division....
...Among those in the Chinese sights were Symantec, Adobe Systems and Northrup Grumman. In all cases, the target was intellectual property, including software codes, chip designs and the like....
...Northrop Grumman, the US Navy’s largest shipbuilder, this week announced it is consolidating its Gulf Coast facilities and exploring strategic alternatives for its shipbuilding business....
...“The company will focus on profitability, and operations like shipbuilding that can’t do their part could be gone.”...
...Northrop Grumman, the Los Angeles-based defence giant, saw its profits in the fourth quarter rise 22 per cent over 2004, despite having its warship building operations hit hard by Hurricane Katrina in October...
...At 24 times forecast earnings, the deal is no bargain, reflecting rival interest from Lockheed Martin, Northrup Grumman and others....
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