"The Playtex lingerie team were considered the "underdogs of the space suit project," Elizabeth Licata of The Gloss wrote this week, beating out military contractors and industrial designers.
The report also accuses a CIA contractor of beating a prisoner with a large metal flashlight during June 2003 interrogation sessions.
As a result, companies like Oshkosh are better positioned to beat the biggest contractors for new business.
The broadly positive results come a day after Lockheed Martin, the world's largest military contractor, beat Wall Street's profit expectations and raised its full-year forecast on record Pentagon spending and demand for its jets.
Names are unknown except for that of David Passaro, a CIA contractor who was convicted in the beating death of an Afghan detainee, Ahmed Wali, at a black site near Kabul called the "Salt Pit".
In 2006, during the Bush administration, David A. Passaro, a former civilian contractor for the C.I.A., was convicted of beating an Afghan prisoner with a two-foot metal flashlight while interrogating him; the man later died.
Northrop Grumman, one of the world's largest defense contractors, reported Thursday that its second-quarter profit jumped 23%, beating Wall Street estimates, as sales rose 7%.
EarthLink and Google beat out five other contractors who bid last year on the contract to create a citywide wireless network here.
"If I complain anything about work [the contractors] beat us..
Only one C.I.A. contractor, David A. Passaro, has been prosecuted, receiving an eight-year sentence for beating an Afghan man who later died.
