Sentences with phrase «government defense spending»

Demand for General Dynamics» products is driven more by trends in government defense spending and the business jet cycle, which don't always match up with trends in the broader economy.

She says that the Coast Guard has shouldered the burden of building new vessels while government defense spending increases have gone elsewhere.

Not exact matches

Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in such forward - looking statements and that should be considered in evaluating our outlook include, but are not limited to, the following: 1) our ability to continue to grow our business and execute our growth strategy, including the timing, execution, and profitability of new and maturing programs; 2) our ability to perform our obligations under our new and maturing commercial, business aircraft, and military development programs, and the related recurring production; 3) our ability to accurately estimate and manage performance, cost, and revenue under our contracts, including our ability to achieve certain cost reductions with respect to the B787 program; 4) margin pressures and the potential for additional forward losses on new and maturing programs; 5) our ability to accommodate, and the cost of accommodating, announced increases in the build rates of certain aircraft; 6) the effect on aircraft demand and build rates of changing customer preferences for business aircraft, including the effect of global economic conditions on the business aircraft market and expanding conflicts or political unrest in the Middle East or Asia; 7) customer cancellations or deferrals as a result of global economic uncertainty or otherwise; 8) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which we operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; 9) the success and timely execution of key milestones such as the receipt of necessary regulatory approvals, including our ability to obtain in a timely fashion any required regulatory or other third party approvals for the consummation of our announced acquisition of Asco, and customer adherence to their announced schedules; 10) our ability to successfully negotiate, or re-negotiate, future pricing under our supply agreements with Boeing and our other customers; 11) our ability to enter into profitable supply arrangements with additional customers; 12) the ability of all parties to satisfy their performance requirements under existing supply contracts with our two major customers, Boeing and Airbus, and other customers, and the risk of nonpayment by such customers; 13) any adverse impact on Boeing's and Airbus» production of aircraft resulting from cancellations, deferrals, or reduced orders by their customers or from labor disputes, domestic or international hostilities, or acts of terrorism; 14) any adverse impact on the demand for air travel or our operations from the outbreak of diseases or epidemic or pandemic outbreaks; 15) our ability to avoid or recover from cyber-based or other security attacks, information technology failures, or other disruptions; 16) returns on pension plan assets and the impact of future discount rate changes on pension obligations; 17) our ability to borrow additional funds or refinance debt, including our ability to obtain the debt to finance the purchase price for our announced acquisition of Asco on favorable terms or at all; 18) competition from commercial aerospace original equipment manufacturers and other aerostructures suppliers; 19) the effect of governmental laws, such as U.S. export control laws and U.S. and foreign anti-bribery laws such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the United Kingdom Bribery Act, and environmental laws and agency regulations, both in the U.S. and abroad; 20) the effect of changes in tax law, such as the effect of The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the «TCJA») that was enacted on December 22, 2017, and changes to the interpretations of or guidance related thereto, and the Company's ability to accurately calculate and estimate the effect of such changes; 21) any reduction in our credit ratings; 22) our dependence on our suppliers, as well as the cost and availability of raw materials and purchased components; 23) our ability to recruit and retain a critical mass of highly - skilled employees and our relationships with the unions representing many of our employees; 24) spending by the U.S. and other governments on defense; 25) the possibility that our cash flows and our credit facility may not be adequate for our additional capital needs or for payment of interest on, and principal of, our indebtedness; 26) our exposure under our revolving credit facility to higher interest payments should interest rates increase substantially; 27) the effectiveness of any interest rate hedging programs; 28) the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting; 29) the outcome or impact of ongoing or future litigation, claims, and regulatory actions; 30) exposure to potential product liability and warranty claims; 31) our ability to effectively assess, manage and integrate acquisitions that we pursue, including our ability to successfully integrate the Asco business and generate synergies and other cost savings; 32) our ability to consummate our announced acquisition of Asco in a timely matter while avoiding any unexpected costs, charges, expenses, adverse changes to business relationships and other business disruptions for ourselves and Asco as a result of the acquisition; 33) our ability to continue selling certain receivables through our supplier financing program; 34) the risks of doing business internationally, including fluctuations in foreign current exchange rates, impositions of tariffs or embargoes, compliance with foreign laws, and domestic and foreign government policies; and 35) our ability to complete the proposed accelerated stock repurchase plan, among other things.

The document reallocates more than $ 54 billion from government entities like the Environmental Protection Agency, the State Department and even NASA to boost defense spending by the same amount.

While the budget proposes large spending cuts to many government agencies — the Environmental Protection Agency and State Department budgets would be cut 31 % and 28 %, respectively — defense and military spending would increase substantially.

While China's domestic security spending outstrips defense spending, though the government stopped providing exact figures four years ago, it has also struggled with some pointed intelligence failures.

Three defense contractors found success in diversification after the government slashed its spending.

The Japanese government also approved a record increase in defense spending — focused primarily on ballistic missile defense.

Protecting major transfers to persons, spending on health and education and other spending such as that for Aboriginal programs, research and development, and assuming you won't revisit defense and international assistance, then to find an additional $ 8 to $ 11 billion by 2015 - 16 would require major cuts in labor market programs, spending on the homeless, infrastructure programs, and last, but certainly not least, government personnel costs.

Though the German government is notionally committed to the alliance's 2 - percent defense - spending target, it only spent 1.2 percent of its GDP on defense last year — an amount her coalition partners, the Social Democrats, and more than half the German public oppose increasing.

Speaking of the government's impact on the industrial sector, aerospace and defense stocks are leading industrials on speculation President Donald Trump is targeting significant increase in defense spending.

But the more libertarian, limited - government wing of the party generally prioritizes cutting domestic spending over boosting defense spending, and has pushed back against the February deal as allowing profligacy on all fronts.

People keep forgetting that most government spending is transfer payments, but it is only purchases of labor and goods that go directly into the GDP calculations, and it is these accounts that will get smacked by the sequester of discretionary defense and non-defense budgets.

The government is having another, less direct impact on defense spending, namely an increase in demand for weaponry and tech as geopolitical tensions rise.

If you are 55 or under and hope to enjoy some of those benefits you have been paying into from your paychecks for the last 30 years, of which the Government has borrowed 5 trillion dollars for other spending such as defense and tax breaks for the rich, which is why the current social security system is in jeopardy, then you will be voting for Obama.

Given the sad state of our highways, public transportation systems and other material infrastructure, as well as the severe needs of our educational system, increased government spending in these areas could take up the slack in declining defense expenditures while contributing enormously to the potential productivity of the United States.

Some folks don't believe in defense spending and war as government - mandated programs either — and in protest have withheld tax money owed to the IRS — and I don't recall them winning their cases.

And this Al - Monitor (a media site focused on Middle East which was accused of following «the agenda of the Iranian and Syrian governments and Hezbollah») article details a bit more the military budget and the growing trend of Iran's military spendings, although it does not state the current total defense budget and its numbers are considerably lower than SIPRI's for the past years, maybe because the fiscal year used in this article begins near 20th March:

The US spends more on education than defense, although most of that spending is private rather than government spending.

Six weeks into the trial of Percoco and three executives accused of allegedly bribing the former Cuomo adviser in exchange for government favors, prosecutors and defense lawyers spent all day Tuesday giving closing arguments to a case that could have sweeping implications for its sister case — the Buffalo Billion trial expected to start in June in the same courtroom.

I agree with EJ that there is a need for a more portable plan for those that choose not to spend their entire career in government, however, as Brodsky said, that's no reason to wreck the entire system and I don't feel EJ did a very good job of outlining his case — though Brodsky did an even worse job outlining the defense in this case.

For CenterState CEO President Rob Simpson, January is usually a time he and other business leaders start playing defense; fending off budget proposals from Albany that include higher taxes and fees, and more government spending.

The temporary spending agreement took the air out of the balloon of heightening tension that the government would grind to a halt over differences on defense and domestic spending, border security and the future of youthful immigrant «Dreamers.»

Republican members of Indiana's Congressional Delegation split their votes on the latest budget deal which funds the government for the next two years, lifts the debt ceiling as well as increases spending on defense and domestic programs.

The House of Representatives seemed poised to pass a bill to keep the government open until 16 February, after promising conservatives a vote on a major increase in defense spending, a hard - line immigration bill as well as other unnamed concessions that the conservative House Freedom Caucus leader Mark Meadows called «subplots» on Thursday night.

The strategy continued into 2017, reports Elana Schor in Politico, when «All but four of the Senate's 48 Democrats [in December] warned congressional GOP leaders against pursuing a government funding plan that would boost defense spending for the rest of the fiscal year while leaving domestic priorities at current levels... Some Senate Democrats began pushing back... as House conservatives pitched Republican leaders on a full - year hike for the Pentagon paired with a continuing resolution for domestic programs.»

Although inflation will likely reduce its value by 10 % by 2015, most researchers have welcomed this outcome bearing in mind what has happened to other parts of government spending, including defense (cut by 8 %), policing (cut 4 %), and the Foreign Office (down 24 %).

A new analysis by the Natural Resources Defense Council, the NRDC, finds that the federal government spent three times more than the private insurance industry on climate change impacts last year.

That group noted that the U.S. government spent about $ 5 billion on energy research in 2010, compared with about $ 30 billion for medical research and over $ 80 billion for defense R&D.

January 31, 2013 • The government is set to make additional cuts to spending, including defense, this spring, unless lawmakers agree on an alternative plan to address the deficit.

Payments to social security recipients, the costs of national defense, medical expenditures, and interest payments on the national debt constitute the bulk of federal government spending.

If the government plans to cut defense spending, it means that a lot of revenue could be lost for companies that do business in this space.

Instead, our research indicates that inflation is primarily the result of growth in unproductive forms of government spending (basically defense spending, entitlements and other expenditures that fail to stimulate the supply of goods).

His passionate defense of human rights and freedom of speech is deeply tied to his own personal experience, after spending his early childhood in a labor camp with his family, and later on being targeted for his outspoken criticism of the Chinese government.

In a column penned in the midst of the 2014 floods crisis that briefly engulfed a coalition government that had overseen cuts to flood defense spending, columnist Matthew D'Ancona made a timeless observation that has stayed with me ever since:

This is especially true WRT the politics so there is plenty of left - wing government money to be spent on his defense.

I hold special scorn for those who want to tear away funding for programs that mostly benefit the disadvantaged, because this is pure gamesmanship — if politicians were serious about balancing the budget, they'd either tackle defense and entitlement programs, or do something that would be much, much better for the economy than slashing government spending: raise taxes on the wealthy.

Nichols, who has spent the past 12 years as a private practitioner in the government contracts field, will work on regulatory and litigation matters involving government procurement related to defense and aerospace, large - scale construction, and internal development.

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Nix said that while an increase in defense spending could «help» the company's business, SCL's government division sees potential beyond the Pentagon and Homeland Security.

An obscure provision tucked into a U.S. defense spending bill could act as a springboard for blockchain adoption across government agencies.

CoinDesk An obscure provision tucked into a U.S. defense spending bill could act as a springboard for blockchain adoption across government agencies.

Developers of class - A buildings are looking to opportunities presented by increased defense spending by the government, industry sources say.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average has surpassed 20,000, a record high, and the economy is expected to benefit as the federal government cuts taxes, scraps unneeded regulations, and increases spending on infrastructure and defense.

While consumer spending, single - family housing, home mortgages, defense spending and healthcare are in recovery, other sectors such as business investment (venture capital), telecom, technology, state governments and the airline industry are all in recession.

Over the first half of 2017, there is little doubt the U.S. economy will enjoy a stimulus, largely via a combination of tax cuts and government spending on infrastructure and national defense.

Certainly, a critical question that remains on the table is how the government will pay for increased spending on infrastructure and defense, while reducing tax rates, without significantly raising the U.S. budget deficit (a key Republican stance).

GDP growth was reduced by higher levels of imports and weakness in federal government spending, particularly for defense spending.