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Ball Stock Rating Upgraded by Robert W. Baird

The firm currently has a $50.00 price target on the stock, up from their previous price target of $48.00.

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Related Topix: Ball, Manufacturing, Financial Services, Robert W Baird, Investment Services

Wed Jun 19, 2013

Defense Tech

Sensor-Makers See Rising Homeland Demand

Even as they showcased a sensor that can spot a gunman from more than six miles away, officials from a unit of L-3 Communications Holdings Inc. said they're seeing rising demand for non-defense applications.

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Related Topix: L 3 Communication Holdings, Telecom, Canada, Waltham, MA, Manufacturing, FLIR Systems

AmericanBankingNews.com

United Technologies Receives "Buy" Rating from TheStreet

's stock had its "buy" rating reiterated by equities researchers at TheStreet in a research report issued on Wednesday, StockRatingsNetwork reports.

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Related Topix: Sikorsky Aircraft, Manufacturing, GE Aircraft Engines, Industrial Machines, Hamilton Sundstrand, Paper, Security, United Technologies Corporation, Pratt Industries, Clipper Windpower

Reuters

Cyber threats and leaks spur increased security focus

Increased cyber espionage by China and recent leaks by a contractor working at the National Security Agency have put a sharp focus on cyber security for aerospace and defense companies showing off their wares at this year's Paris Airshow.

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Related Topix: Alliant Techsystems, Raytheon

News Times

Klansman GE engineer plotted attack

An industrial mechanic with General Electric Co., who is also allegedly a member of the Ku Klux Klan , designed a deadly, mobile radiation device that he tried to sell to Jewish groups and then to a southern branch of the Ku Klux Klan, according to a federal complaint unsealed Wednesday in Albany.

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Related Topix: Financial Services, General Electric

Reuters

U.S. arms companies see rising foreign demand

U.S. arms makers see rising foreign demand for fighter jets, missile defense systems and other weapons as countries modernize their forces and U.S. officials, facing tighter budgets, encourage allies to invest more in intelligence gathering and aerial refueling equipment.

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Related Topix: Strategic Defense Initiative, US Military, US News, US Air Force, Manufacturing, Lockheed Martin, Aircraft, Eurofighter Aircraft, Eurofighter Typhoon, Military Aircraft

Korea Herald

Korean Air signs MOU with Boeing to buy 11 fuel-efficient aircraft

Korean Air Lines Co., South Korea's top air carrier, said Wednesday it has signed a memorandum of understanding with Boeing Co.

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Related Topix: Boeing Commercial Airplanes

NorthJersey.com

Dredging crews back on Hudson River

General Electric Co. says work on the multi-year Superfund project resumed Monday on two areas north of Albany contaminated by PCBs.

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Related Topix: Financial Services, General Electric

Tue Jun 18, 2013

The Hartford Courant

Pentagon, contractors take aim at F-35 operating costs

With development and technology challenges on the Lockheed Martin Corp F-35 fighter increasingly under control, the company and the U.S. military are taking aim at a more vexing problem: the cost of flying and maintaining the new warplane.

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Related Topix: Manufacturing, Lockheed Martin, US Marine Corps, Ansonia, CT

The Hartford Courant

United Technologies told to pay $473 million to U.S. in lawsuit

A federal judge has ordered United Technologies Corp to pay $473 million plus interest for manipulating costs to win U.S. Air Force jet engine contracts in the 1980s.

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Related Topix: Manufacturing, Industrial Machines, Security, United Technologies Corporation, United Technologies, GE Aircraft Engines, Hamilton Sundstrand, Paper, Pratt Industries, Clipper Windpower

Lancashire Telegraph

VIDEOS: Samlesbury's BAE Systems unveils forgotten aircraft designs from its archives

A HYPERSONIC space-plane, a jeep which could leap over enemy blockades and an aircraft able to take off and land vertically are some of the 1960s inventions unearthed from the archives of BAE Systems .

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Related Topix: Manufacturing, BAE Systems, Science / Technology, Inventions

The Hartford Courant

GE to create Russian venture to build power plants

U.S. conglomerate General Electric Co will create a joint venture with Russia's state-funded private equity vehicle to build mini power plants across Russia, the parties said on Tuesday.

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Related Topix: Financial Services, General Electric, Ansonia, CT

Weyburn Review

Bombardier reveals VistaJet orders, options worth up to US$1.035 billion

Bombardier Inc. has announced several orders at the Paris Air Show that could be worth up to US$2 billion if all options are exercised.

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Related Topix: Civil Aircraft, Bombardier Aircraft, Aircraft, Bombardier, Bombardier Global 8000

WSFA-TV Montgomery

Carnival files suit against Ala. ship repair firm

The Carnival Corp. has filed a lawsuit seeking more than $12 million in damage its cruise ship, Triumph, sustained in an early April windstorm.

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Related Topix: Travel/Tourism, Carnival Cruise, Manufacturing, BAE Systems

Bloomberg

EasyJet Orders Airbus Jets, Risking Clash With Founder

EasyJet Plc agreed to buy 135 Airbus SAS jets worth about $13.22 billion at list price as Europe's No.

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Related Topix: Airbus SAS, World News, United Kingdom, Hertfordshire County, England, Bedfordshire County, England, Boeing Aircraft, Boeing 737, Aircraft, Commercial Aircraft

Patch.com

Hanscom Snow Crews Get Their Due for Work This Winter

Snow removal crews at Hanscom Field received recognition for their work over the winter when they had to deal with 69 inches of snow.

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Related Topix: Weather, Flying, Life, Hobbies, Bedford, MA, Raytheon

Mon Jun 17, 2013

Prince George Citizen

Most actively traded companies on the TSX, TSX Venture Exchange markets

B2Gold Corp. . Up 22 cents, or 9.82 per cent, at $2.46 on 11.92 million shares. The gold sector was up 0.27 per cent at 190.87 points.

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Related Topix: Bombardier, Manulife Financial, Insurance

Bloomberg

GE Hiring Thousands of Engineers to Build Industrial Internet

Jeff Immelt, chairman and CEO of General Electric Co. , speaks during a keynote address at the Minds + Machines 2012: Unleashing the Industrial Internet conference in San Francisco.

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Related Topix: General Electric, Financial Services, Marketing, Half Moon Bay, CA

Brandon Sun

F-35-maker signs deal with CAE in anticipation of Canadian program resuming

The U.S. manufacturer of the oft-maligned F-35 has signed a deal with a leading Canadian maker of flight simulators in anticipation of the Harper government choosing to stick with the controversial stealth fighter program.

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Related Topix: Cascade, Manufacturing, Industrial Machines, Lockheed Martin, US Military, US Air Force

Burnley Citizen

New chairman to take control at East Lancashire defence giant BAE Systems

Sir Roger Carr, who stepped down as president of the CBI lobby group earlier this week, will replace Dick Olver, who has held the role for nine years.

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Related Topix: Manufacturing, BAE Systems, Beverages, Cadbury Schweppes

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