Because capitalist pigs in this country have their hands deep in the pockets of the Military Industrial Complex.
Big money, big profits. What's to complain about?
Oh, really? It has nothing to do with capitalism? Tell that to the CEOs and stockholders of
•/ Acutronic
•Accenture Ltd.
•Action Target
•Aerojet
•Aerospace Corporation
•Aerovironment
•Advanced Integrated Systems
•Aegis Defense Services
•AirScan
•Aivea Corporation
•Alliant Techsystems
•/ Allied Container Systems
•AM General Corporation
•American Petroleum Institute
•Antonov Airlines
•Applied Research Associates Inc.
•ARINC
•Argon ST
•Astronautics Corporation of America
•AV-Optimal Defense Consultancy Service
•BAE Systems plc
oBAE Systems Inc.
oBAE Systems Land and Armaments
oBAE Systems Electronics, Intelligence & Support
oLand Systems OMC
•Ball Corporation
oBall Aerospace & Technologies Corp.
•Barrett Firearms Manufacturing
•Battelle Memorial Institute
•Bechtel Corporation
•Berico Technologies
•/ BDM Corporation
•Blazeware Inc.
•Black Knight Technology Inc.
•Boecore
•Boeing Company
oBoeing Sikorsky Comanche Team
oBoeing SVS
oMcDonnell Douglas
•Booz Allen Hamilton
•British Nuclear Fuels Limited
•Brogden Enterprises, Inc.
•CACI International Inc.
•Carlyle Group
•Carnegie Mellon University
•Charles Stark Draper Laboratory
•CNA Corporation
•Colt Defense
•Concurrent Technologies Corporation
•Crye Associates
•CSA Engineering
•Computer Sciences Corporation
•Cubic Corporation
oOmega Training Group
•DARPA
•Decibel Research Inc.
•Defense Technologies Inc.
•Delta Intelligence & Security
•Digital System Resources Inc.
•Dillon Aero
•DRS Technologies
•DynCorp
•Dynetics, Inc.
•EADS
oEurocopter
oAmerican Eurocopter
oAirbus
•Earth Class Mail
•East/West Industries, Inc.
•Edison Welding Institute
•Elbit Systems
•ENSCO, Inc.
•// Environmental Tectonics Corporation
•Evergreen International Aviation
•Exxon Corporation
•Fabbrica d'Armi Pietro Beretta
•Fabrique Nationale de Herstal
•FLIR Systems
•Fluor Corp.
•FGM Inc
•F M C Technologies
•Force Protection Inc
•Foster Wheeler Ltd.
•Foundation Health Systems Inc.
•G4S plc
•GB Industrial Battery
•Gemini Industries Inc.
•General Atomics
•General Dynamics
oGulfstream
oMOWAG
oGeneral Dynamics Electric Boat
oBath Iron Works
•General Electric Military Jet Engines Division
•Geo-Centers Inc.
•Glock GmbH
•Goodrich Corporation
•Georgia Tech Research Institute
•Harris Corporation
•/ Halliburton Corporation
•Health Net, Inc.
•Heckler & Koch
•Hewlett-Packard
•Honeywell
•HS Produkt
•Humana Inc.
•Hybricon Corporation
•IBM
•Industrial Machining & Design Services, Inc.
•Infotech Aerospace Services (a Pratt & Whitney joint venture)
•Insight Technology
•Institute for Defense Analyses
•Intelsat
•International Resources Group
•Israeli Aerospace Industries
•Israeli Military Industries
•ITT Corporation
•ITT Research Institute
•Jacobs Engineering Group Inc.
•JGB Enterprises, Inc.
•Johns Hopkins University
•Kaman Aircraft
•Kearfott Corporation
•Kellogg, Brown and Root
•Knight's Armament Company
•Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace
•L-3 Communications Holdings, Inc.
oSYColeman
oBrashear
•Lockheed Martin
•Longbow Limited Liability Inc.
•M7 Aerospace
•M9 Defense Systems
•MacGregor Group (part of Cargotec corporation)
•A.P. Moller-Maersk Group
•ManTech International
•Massachusetts Institute of Technology
•Maytag Aircraft Corporation
•Menatek Spare Parts
•MITRE Corporation; also see ANSER Institute for Homeland Security
•Mitsubishi
•Motorola Inc.
•Naval Surface Warfare Center Crane Division
•Nextel
•Nichols Research Corporation
•Northrop Grumman Corporation
oNorthrop Grumman Electronic Systems
oNorthrop Grumman Information Technologies
oNorthrop Grumman Integrated Systems
oNorthrop Grumman Mission Systems
oNorthrop Grumman Newport News (formerly Newport News Shipbuilding & Drydock Company)
oNorthrop Grumman Ships Systems
oNorthrop Grumman Space Technology
oNorthrop Grumman Technical Services
•Ocean Shipholdings Inc.
•Olin Corporation; also see John M. Olin and John M. Olin Foundation
•Orbital Sciences Corporation
•Oshkosh Corporation
•Osterhout Design Group; see also Ralph Osterhout
•OT Training Solutions
•Para-Ordnance
•Perot Systems
•Pinnacle Armor
•Point Blank Industries
•Precision Castparts Corporation
•Quantum3D
•QinetiQ North America
•Raytheon
oBBN Technologies
oJPS Communications
•Remington Arms
•Rock Island Arsenal
•Rockwell Collins
•Rolls-Royce plc
•RONCO (de-mining operations Horn of Africa)
•Saab AB
•SBG Technology Solutions
•Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC)
•Sensis Corporation
•Shell Oil Company
•Siemens AG
•/ SimplexGrinnell, LP
•SFA, Inc.
•SGIS
•Smartronix, Inc.
•Smith & Wesson
•SPARTA, Inc.
•Springfield Armory
•SRI International
•ST Engineering
oST Kinetics
oVision Technologies Systems
•Stanley, Inc.
•Standard Missile Company LLC
•Stevedoring Services of America
•Stewart and Stevenson
•Strum, Ruger & Company Incorporated
•Sverdrup Corporation
•Swiss Arms
oSIG Sauer
•Talla-Tech
•Forjas Taurus S/A
•TCom
•Teledyne
•Telent
•Texas Instruments
•Textron Inc.
oBell Helicopter Textron
oUnited Industrial Corporation
oAAI Corporation
•The Columbia Group
•Trijicon
•Tri-Star Engineering, Inc.
•TriWest Healthcare Alliance
•Tyco International Ltd.
oADT Security Services
•University of Texas System
•Unisys Corporation
•United Technologies
oSikorsky
oPratt & Whitney
•URS Corporation
oWashington Group International
•USmax Corporation
•US Falcon
•Vangent
•Verizon Communications
•Vinnell Corporation
oVinnell-Brown & Root
•Westinghouse Electric Corporation
•Wiley X
•Worldcorp Inc.
•Wyvern Technologies, Aerospace & Defense Contractors
•Xe Services LLC
•York Executive Operations
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