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...Christian pitch won over Nancy Pitz, 56, a manager at Northrop Grumman. She liked the equipment at This Is It! Christian Fitness for Ladies in Pasadena, Md., and going there fit her schedule. But what really grabbed her were the King James Bibles and the wall that read, "And herein do I exercise myself to have always a conscience void of offense toward God and toward men." A bulletin board in the lobby posts a prayer list with such intentions as "safe and healthy weight loss"; the sound system plays hymns mixed to an aerobic beat. The gym is "about...
American contractors like Lockheed Martin, Boeing and Northrop Grumman still share the bulk of U.S. defense spending, of course. But waves of consolidation have narrowed the domestic field to a small--and, critics say, often uncompetitive--number of major players. And even those firms are looking abroad: Boeing, the world's top aerospace firm and the U.S.'s biggest exporter (2004 revenues: $52 billion), outsources jet components to Japan and Italy. "It's not just a cliché to say the world is getting smaller," says Mark Ronald, CEO of the U.S. arm of BAE Systems...
...That has allowed EADS to get into the game with its own tanker. "The U.S. tanker deal is fundamental to us," says Crosby. He announced the company's intention to assemble the jet in the U.S. should EADS win. EADS will probably partner with a U.S. company, perhaps Northrop Grumman, to make the proposal more attractive to the Pentagon...
...make the world a better place," she notes. "It was clear then that it was time to put up or shut up." Her work led to the first robots built specifically for the task, to be released in the next year by American Standard Robotics and the Northrop Grumman subsidiary Remotec. The robots are expected to be able to gather data by themselves so that operators can focus on the emergency at hand...
...first Gulf War. In September 1990, with Cheney's backing, Rowen cooked up Operation Scorpion, a secret plan to invade Iraq from the west, go all the way to Baghdad and topple Saddam. (The plan went nowhere.) Another panel member, former CIA deputy director William Studeman, now with Northrop Grumman, contributed $250 to candidate Bush's campaign in 2000. His wife gave the Bush re-election committee $500 just a week before her husband was named to the panel last month...