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06.25.2009 5:50 pm

Boeing’s Future Combat Systems: Too much, too soon.

The Pentagon this week dropped a bundle of bad news on Boeing Co. and its St. Louis-based Integrated Defense Systems unit: The $160 billion Future Combat Systems program has been canceled.

The program was managed here, but development and production work was farmed…

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04.08.2009 9:00 pm

Gates signals dark days for military-industrial complex

We'll buy fewer of these.

F-22 Raptor: We'll buy fewer of these.

In his farewell address as president, Dwight Eisenhower, who knew a thing or two about war, coined the phrase “military-industrial complex” to describe the “conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry…

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