The demand for these services, in turn, has ballooned: the gross revenue for the private military contractor industry is now in excess of $100bn a year.
"Reporting an event like this would kill your stock price," says a source close to the military contractor industry who asked not to be named.
Later in September, sources close to the military contractor industry revealed to Forbes.com that major contractors, including Boeing, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman had all been the targets of cyber-intruders who appeared to be based in China.
John Brennan--CIA veteran, leader of an influential intelligence contractor industry association, and top national security advisor to the Obama campaign abruptly removed himself from consideration last Tuesday, citing mounting criticism over his role in Bush-era intelligence abuses.
The geometric mean airborne silica exposure level in the general contractor industry (SIC 1541) was almost 6.2 times higher, at 0.354 mg/m (Stewart and Rice 1990), in 1979 1987 compared with 0.057 mg/m in 1988–2003.
WASHINGTON, July 4 — Contractors who have worked in Iraq are returning home with the same kinds of combat-related mental health problems that afflict United States military personnel, according to contractors, industry officials and mental health experts.
The military contractor Litton Industries Inc. agreed yesterday to sell its Weather Services International unit to Landmark Communications Inc. for $120 million, raising cash as it tightens its focus on core operations.
Genius, billionaire, playboy, and philanthropist, Tony Stark, who has inherited the defense contractor Stark Industries from his father, is in war-torn Afghanistan with his friend and military liaison, Lieutenant Colonel James Rhodes to demonstrate the new "Jericho" missile.
Common targets of APTs include government agencies, defense contractors, and industries developing technologies of military or economic strategic importance, such as aerospace and computer companies.
Democratic Rep. Jim Moran's district in Northern Virginia would be hit hard by sequestration, he said, pointing to the military contractors and industries tied to federal funding.
