For Immediate Release

Chicago, IL – November 4, 2009 – Zacks.com releases the latest Industry Outlook. Today, Zacks Equity Research discusses the Aerospace & Defense sector, including United Technologies Corporation (UTX), Oshkosh Corporation (OSK), The Boeing Company (BA) and Honeywell International Inc. (HON).

A synopsis of today’s Industry Outlook is presented below. The full article can be read at http://www.zacks.com/stock/news/26834/Aerospace+%26amp%3B+Defense.

With core defense spending expected to slow, U.S. defense contractors need to identify additional revenue sources for the coming years. 2009 holds potential for interesting merger and acquisition (M&A) activity, mostly smaller deals by larger A&D firms to fill in capability gaps -- particularly in the security, defense electronics and aftermarket services business areas. U.S. defense firms may see opportunities in credit-squeezed markets to pick up U.S. assets at historically low price-to-earnings multiples.

Some large companies are expanding into the adjacent markets

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OVERVIEW Inherently, big defense contractors are expected to eliminate jobs as the Pentagon has lowered spending on traditional weapon systems, while smaller, niche companies may accelerate hiring as the United States garners resources to protect ground troops and strategic computer networks. Industry pioneer Lockheed Martin Corporation (LMT) aims to reduce 600 jobs as a result of the US Defense Department's decision to terminate the VH-71 presidential helicopter program. The Boeing Company (BA) hinted that Pentagon cuts would claim 1,000 jobs in its defense business, affecting staffing at various work sites in the United States in missile defense and in the Army's Future Combat Systems modernization program, which is now being opened to more competition. The large commercial aircraft sector is expected to generate most of its revenue from Asia Pacific Japan (APJ) and the Middle East, relying less on U.S. orders because of the ...

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PowerSafe Technology Corporation (PSFT.PK) subsidiary Amplification Technologies Inc. (www.amplificationtechnologies.com) (ATI), is offering higher performance thermoelectrically cooled discrete amplification single photon counting solid state photodetectors. These photodetectors are mounted on a two stage thermoelectric cooler inside a hermetically sealed TO8 package and can be operated down to a temperature of -30oC.

State Street Corporation (NYSE: STT), one of the world’s leading providers of financial services to institutional investors, today announced that it was selected by Storage

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Not all components of GDP are created equal. Some are very big, and others relatively small. Some tend to be very stable over time, and some tend to swing violently from quarter to quarter. The bigger and more volatile they are, the more they will impact the overall growth rate of GDP. Thus looking at just the percentage changes in the components does not tell the full story. Of the 3.5% total growth, how many points were added or subtracted by each part of the economy? The biggest part of the economy is the Consumer, or PCE -- overall it contributed 2.36 of the 3.50 points of total growth. In the second quarter it caused 0.62 of the 0.70 total decline in the 2Q. In the first quarter it actually offset 0.44 points of the 6.40 total decline. In other words, excluding the Consumer the economy would ...

BA does almost nothing right. So why is the stock up 52%? We have all heard the old saw as to how “the market climbs a wall of worry.” There is, of course, an inherent truth in this. Investors always take on a bit of risk in exchange for their gains. One might imagine that this is a well-reasoned and well-researched risk. Yeah, well, you’d probably be wrong about that. For most of the past eight months, most investors haven’t even shown the common rules of life we try to teach grade school kids, like “look both ways before you cross the street,” or “don’t trust that weird guy in the rusty old Buick ...

Northrop Grumman Corporation (NOC) has recently bagged four small contracts from the Pentagon, totaling approximately $116.6 million. Of this, the largest is a $58 million Army contract to complete a counter-rocket artillery and mortar system.  Work on the contract will be performed in Huntsville , Alabama facility. The company expects to complete the contract by the end of the third quarter of fiscal 2010. The Pentagon also awarded a $42 million Navy contract to build spare and repair parts for weapons-system navigation and radars.  Work on the contract will be performed in the Charlottesville , Virginia facility and is expected to be completed by Oct 2012. The company also received a $9.6 million Air Force contract for a preliminary design for a communications system for the MQ-9 Reaper, an unmanned aerial vehicle. Lastly, another $7 million was awarded to Northrop to work on an integrated base-defense ...

Rare earth elements (REEs) have been the mystery metals of the mining world for years. Now, suddenly, everyone’s heard about them.

Before we delve into the reasons behind all the publicity, here’s the basic skinny on REEs: One, they are rare, at least sort of. Two, they are indispensable to modern technology. Three, the number of active, dedicated producers is tiny, with more than 90% of the world’s supply coming from China.

If you took high school chemistry, you probably remember the periodic table of the elements. But if you’re like most of us, even if you pulled a 95 on the chem final, you may not recall many of the details today. And there’s a better than even chance you never bothered to memorize the names of the REEs. It’s time to get reacquainted.

They’re generally clustered in a separate grouping at the bottom of the table, are known collectively as the

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A New Era in the Defense Industry: Lock And Load On Profits

by Tony Daltorio, Investment U Research

Over the past year, stocks of companies in the defense industry have taken a beating, down thirty percent… forty percent… or more.

Valuations have taken an even harder knock, with forward price-to-earnings dropping to just under nine times 2010 earnings… their lowest levels since the early 1990s, when the end of the Cold War led to the US cutting defense spending by more than half.

Today, investors fear a repeat performance, and let’s face it: The recon doesn’t look good.

Reports show that while the defense budget edges towards $600 billion a year, the supplemental budgets – which fund current operations – will actually decline sharply as the US winds down operations in Iraq and wages a more limited campaign in Afghanistan.

By 2010, total spending on research

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General Dynamics Corporation (GD) bagged a $50 million contract from the U.S. Air Force to perform specialized research and use advanced state-of-the-art material technologies or applications in several programs within the survivability portfolio of the Pentagon. The company has significant exposure in survivability programs. General Dynamics has earlier worked on M1A2 SEP, Abrams Integrated Management (AIM) and Tank Urban Survivability Kit (TUSK) programs. These programs focused on improving the electronics, command-and-control capabilities and armor enhancements for higher crew survivability. General Dynamics finished the first half of fiscal 2009 with a total order backlog of $67.6 billion, a 22.2% rise over the year-ago period. Subsequent to that, the companies haven’t won any significant major contract. General Dynamics engages in mission-critical information systems and technologies; land and expeditionary combat vehicles, armaments and munitions; shipbuilding and marine systems; and business aviation. The company operates through four segments: Information Systems ...