Reconstruction work in Iraq in 2007. (AP/Getty Images)
In 2003, as $50 billion of U.S. reconstruction money began flowing into Iraq, the Parsons Co., a huge engineering and construction management firm based in Pasadena, Calif., got a $3 million contract to renovate…
One slight problem: the F-22 requires 30 hours of maintenance for every hour in flight.
Congress this week is engaged in one of those debates that makes you want to throw up your hands in despair over the political process. At…
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…
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…
Sarah Palin’s hunting skills are marvelous. Joe Biden’s mom is a hoot. John McCain’s wisecracks are hilarious and Barack Obama’s three-point shot is deadly. So stipulated.
Also stipulated: Ms. Palin may have over-reacted to in-law troubles. Mr. Biden was at times too…
