From drones to frigates to fighter jets, the companies are aggressively pushing foreign sales of high-tech hardware, mostly in the developing world.
And more high-priced, high-tech hardware is on the way, arriving along with questions about whether the Afghan forces will be able to keep it up and running as American troops leave and American money dries up.
Take away the high-tech hardware, and the feudal houses fighting for political supremacy and commercial dominance over trade and technology could be city-states in ancient Greece or ducal kingdoms in Renaissance Italy -- or corporate traders sailing to some new Byzantium in cyberspace.
LE BOURGET, FRANCE — When the glitterati of the aviation world last gathered here, the order announcements for multimillion-dollar jets, helicopters and other high-tech hardware were so frequent that it felt like a week-long New Year's Eve party with champagne corks popping all the time.
Corporations have more high-tech hardware than skilled people to run it.
BF: In 2001, the iPod brought high-tech hardware mainstream.
Mayville Metal Products, of Creedmoor, N.C., makes hopelessly low-tech metal boxes, but its customers need them to house their high-tech hardware.
As demand for high-tech hardware goes, so too does the Dutch potential.
It's really the combination of the high-tech hardware and highly attentive assistants.
Yes, the electronics markets are colossal hives of sensory overload, buzzing nonstop with small-scale high-tech hardware commerce.
Catherine Mann of the Institute for International Economics makes the case in favor of offshoring: High-tech hardware would have been 20% more expensive in the 1990s if not for offshoring.
