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...white and blue enough to tempt the world's biggest shopper: the U.S. Department of Defense. The 25 countries of the European Union spend only about half what the U.S. does on defense, even though the Continent has a larger GDP than the U.S. has. Since Sept. 11, the Pentagon's budget has increased 41%--to $419 billion a year. Ralph Crosby, the West Point graduate and defense-industry veteran who runs EADS's North American operations, says the company, which sells everything from ballistic missiles to mobile medical units, has a clear target: "The U.S. military market is simply...
...Made in the USA" used to be mandatory for military procurement, but the Pentagon, under pressure to buy more efficiently, has opened bidding beyond U.S. borders--and foreigners are piling in. The Colt handgun, first used by the U.S. military in the Mexican-American War of 1846, has been replaced as standard-issue infantry gear by an Italian-designed Beretta. A Brazilian-made Embraer surveillance plane will soon patrol battlefields for the Army rather than a Gulfstream jet produced in Savannah, Ga. Britain's BAE Systems contributes avionics to the F-16, F-18 and F-117 bombers. Rolls-Royce...
Then there is the recent contest to build Marine One, the President's helicopter. For the first time, the Pentagon has decided not to buy from Connecticut's Sikorsky Aircraft Co., instead choosing an Anglo-Italian chopper that initially will be made in Europe by a consortium of firms in partnership with Maryland's Lockheed Martin. "The Marine One decision was highly symbolic," admits John Douglass, president of the Aerospace Industries Association, a U.S. trade group. "It showed that foreign companies can compete and win on the most sensitive programs...
...facing a threat from the Pentagon to cut off funding, HLS exempted the armed services from the long-standing nondiscrimination requirement...
...time, Harvard took no legal action against the Pentagon, but a coalition of 31 law schools and faculty groups—calling themselves the Forum for Academic and Institutional Rights (FAIR)—filed a suit against six Bush administration cabinet officials, charging that the Solomon Amendment was unconstitutional...